Ikpeng language
E208124
The Ikpeng language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Ikpeng people of the Brazilian Amazon, known for its endangered status and rich oral tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ikpeng language canonical | 2 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cariban language
ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Ikpeng
ⓘ
Txikão ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Ikpeng culture ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| endangermentStatus | severely endangered ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ikpeng people ⓘ |
| hasCommunityAttitude | strong identity value ⓘ |
| hasDocumentationType |
audio recordings of narratives
ⓘ
grammatical descriptions ⓘ lexical databases ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
mythology and cosmology
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
complex verbal morphology
ⓘ
evidentiality distinctions ⓘ noun classification ⓘ rich oral tradition ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
agglutinative language
ⓘ
head-marking language ⓘ verb-final tendency ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature |
person marking on verbs
ⓘ
tense-aspect-mood marking ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | few hundred speakers ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive tone absent
ⓘ
nasal vowels ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
bilingual education programs
ⓘ
community language documentation projects ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature |
postpositions rather than prepositions
ⓘ
relatively free word order ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
| isDocumentedBy | linguistic fieldwork in Brazil ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | txi ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Carib languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Cariban languages
|
| isRecognizedBy | Brazilian indigenous organizations ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | local community schools ⓘ |
| isUsedIn | Ikpeng villages along the Xingu region ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Cariban ⓘ |
| region | Mato Grosso ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Ikpeng people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
ⓘ
Amazon rainforest ⓘ
surface form:
Brazilian Amazon
|
| threatenedBy | language shift to Portuguese ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within community
ⓘ
oral storytelling ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.