Yine language

Yine, also called Piro, Pira, Chontaquiro or Simiranch, is an Arawakan language of the Piro group within the Maipurean family's Southern branch, spoken in Peru's Ucayali and Cusco departments near the Ucayali River and in the Madre de Dios region along the Madre de Dios River. About 4,000 native speakers were recorded as of 2010, essentially the whole ethnic Yine population as of 2000, and literacy is comparatively high, supported by a published dictionary and bilingual Spanish-Yine instruction in some schools. Related varieties include the Machinere dialect and the extinct Canamare.