Mturu (Yine)

An application for mobile devices for children to learn the Yine language

It is an application for cell phones and tablets (Android Operating System) for children from 3 to 5 years old to learn through images and sounds the basic contents about the alphabet, numbers, family, colors, parts of the human body, animals, fruits and basic expressions in the Yine language.

This app is aimed at serving as instruments to strengthen and promote linguistic revitalization processes that arise with the new generations.

The Yine people is also known as ‘pyro’, a name that has been used by neighboring towns and other foreigners to distinguish this town. The word “Yine”, on the other hand, would come from yineru, which in the indigenous language is translated as ‘true men’, ‘human being’ or ‘people par excellence’.

The Yine people have been described by various authors as a people of excellent navigators. As good merchants, the Yine had to move in different directions since pre-Hispanic times, establishing contact with numerous peoples, Amazonian and Andean.

The native communities of the Yine people are located mainly in the departments of Cusco, Loreto, Madre de Dios and Ucayali. According to the results of the 2017 national censuses, 2,821 people have identified themselves as part of the Yine people at the national level due to their customs and ancestors; and for the language or mother tongue with which they learned to speak in their childhood, 2,680 people have stated that they speak the Yine language, which corresponds to 0.05% of the total native languages ​​nationwide. In addition, the data obtained by the Ministry of Culture, the population of the Yine people's communities is estimated at 8,871 people.

Source: https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/yine