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.

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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

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

Carib languages hasNotableLanguage Ikpeng language
Xingu peoples usesLanguage Ikpeng language