Ebook: A Grammar of Matses (Dissertation)

Rice University, 2003. - 1279 p.The Matsés language (also ambiguously called Mayoruna) is an indigenous language of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazon basin which belongs to the Panoan language family and is spoken by ca. 2000 Matsés people (Fleck 2006). The language is vigorous and is spoken by all age groups in the Matsés communities. In the Matsés communities several other indigenous languages are also spoken by women who have been captured from neighboring tribes and some mixture of the languages occur.
Dialects are Peruvian Matses, Brazilian Matses, and the extinct Paud Usunkid.