Kurripako language

E166234

The Kurripako language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Kurripako people in parts of the Amazon region of Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil.

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Label Occurrences
Kurripako language canonical 2

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
South American language
indigenous language
belongsToMacroArea South America
closelyRelatedTo Baniwa language
surface form: Baniwa of Içana language

Tariana language
country Brazil
Colombia
Venezuela
documentationStatus described in grammars and dictionaries to a limited extent
ethnicGroup Kurripako
glottocode kurr1242
hasAlternativeName Baniwa-Curripaco
Curripaco
Kurripako
hasDomain indigenous education programs
hasFeature evidentiality distinctions
numeral classifiers
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
tonal or pitch-accent-like distinctions (analyzed in some descriptions)
hasSpeakersIn indigenous communities in northwestern Brazil
indigenous communities in southern Venezuela
indigenous reserves in Colombia
influencedBy Portuguese language
Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
ISO639-3 kpc
isPartOf Upper Rio Negro linguistic area
languageFamily Arawakan languages
surface form: Arawakan language family
languageStatus minority language
vulnerable
linguisticTypology predominantly SOV word order
morphologyType agglutinative language
region Amazon Basin
surface form: Amazon basin
spokenBy Kurripako people
spokenIn Amazonas Department (Colombia)
Orinoco Basin
surface form: Orinoco River region

Vaupés Department
surface form: Vaupés region
subfamily Arawakan languages
surface form: Northern Arawakan
usedAs marker of Kurripako ethnic identity
usedFor daily communication within Kurripako communities
ritual practices
traditional oral literature
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arawakan languages hasLanguage Kurripako language
Maipurean languages member Kurripako language