dialect_varieties: "Peruvian Matses; Brazilian Matses; Paud Usunkid (the last extinct)",
public_comment: "Names involving many Panoan languages (branch of Pano-Tacanan) are confused and conflict with one another in the sources. Some were mentioned long ago and repeated though without precise information about to which group they refer and whether one group may be known by several names or whether a single name may be applied to different groups. Some of these imprecise names include: Mayoruna, Mayo, Maya, Pisabo (Pisagua, Pisahua), etc.
For Fleck (2013), 'Mayoruna' names a branch of Panoan; 'Mayo' names a subgroup in that branch, which contains the real languages Matsés, Kulina of the Curuçá River, and extinct Demushbo. The names 'Mayo' and 'Maya' in the literature were homonymous with 'Mayoruna', and 'Pisabo' was said to be a 'Mayoruna' sub-tribe. A;lso, the name 'Quixito' was a homonym with 'Mayo'.
Ethnologue's Pisabo [pig] (600 speakers in Peru in 2006), and Crevels' (2012: 186) Maya (Quixito) (400 speakers, 400 ethnic population in Brazil) are subsumed here under Matsés as the primary representative of the Mayo subgroup.",
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date_of_info: "2006 for Peru",
public_comment: "1,400 in Peru (2006 SIL). Population total all countries: 2,200.
(2230 [2016].)
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ethnic_population: "4,592",
date_of_info: "2006 for Brazil",
public_comment: "1500 speakers in Brazil (out of an ethnic population of 1592 people) and 2500 speakers and population in Peru.",
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public_comment: "There are more speakers in Peru than Brazil. The Ethnologue lists 1,000 in Brazil and 2,000 in Peru. The
Socioambiental web site puts the population at 829 in Brazil in the year 2000 ... Another web site
estimates that there are currently 760 Matsés in Brazil (http://www.korubo.com/AMAZONDOC/
amazongallery.html). Perhaps one of the most accurate estimates comes from Fleck, who
completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the Matsés in 2003. He bases his information on figures from
another researcher who conducted a census in 1998, and on estimates of population increase.
Fleck (2003:21) estimates that there was a total population of between 2,100 and 2,200 in 2003.
About 1,400 of those would be in Peru, with the remaining 800 in Brazil.",