Yine language

Yine
Piro
Piro
Pronunciation[ˈjine]
Native toPeru
EthnicityYine people, Manchineri
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 2000–2004)
Arawakan
Dialects
Official status
Official language in
Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
pib – Yine
mpd – Machinere (Manitenére)
Glottologyine1238  Yine
mach1268  Machinere
ELP

Yine is the principle variety of Piro, which is a Maipurean language spoken in Peru. It belongs to the Piro group which also includes the nearly extinct Iñapari and Apurinã. The Manchineri who live in Brazil (Acre) and reportedly also in Bolivia speak what may be a dialect of Yine (Aikhenvald, Kaufman). A vocabulary labeled Canamaré is "so close to Piro [Yine] as to count as Piro", but has been a cause of confusion with the unrelated Kanamarí language.