Wayampí

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Wayampí is an indigenous Tupi–Guaraní language spoken by the Wayampí people of the Amazon region in Brazil and French Guiana.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Wayampi 1
Wayampí canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
indigenous language
spoken language
belongsToBranch Northern Tupi–Guaraní NERFINISHED
continent South America
country Federative Republic of Brazil NERFINISHED
French Republic NERFINISHED
endangermentStatus endangered language
ethnicGroup Wayampí people NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution Amapá state, Brazil NERFINISHED
inland areas of French Guiana
hasAlternativeName Aparai-Wayampi (in some classifications) NERFINISHED
Guayapi NERFINISHED
Guayapiy NERFINISHED
Oiampi NERFINISHED
Oyampi NERFINISHED
Wayampi NERFINISHED
hasDomain indigenous cosmology
traditional ecological knowledge
hasLanguageContactWith French NERFINISHED
Portuguese NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
hasMorphologicalFeature rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature nasal harmony (typical of Tupi–Guaraní languages)
hasPreservationEffort community-based language maintenance
documentation by linguists
hasSpeakerCommunityType village communities
hasSyntacticFeature relatively free word order
ISO639-3Code oym
isPartOf Amazonian linguistic area NERFINISHED
languageFamily Tupi–Guaraní NERFINISHED
languageOf Wayampí culture NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language
region Amazon region NERFINISHED
spokenBy Wayampí people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Brazil NERFINISHED
French Guiana NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Tupian language family NERFINISHED
threatenedBy language shift to French
language shift to Portuguese
usedFor daily communication within Wayampí communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
usedIn indigenous communities
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.

Tupi–Guaraní hasLanguage Wayampí
Indigenous peoples of the Guianas includesEthnicGroup Wayampí
this entity surface form: Wayampi