Arikem

E596806

Arikem is a primary subgroup of the Tupian language family, comprising several indigenous languages once spoken in the Amazon region of Brazil.

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Arikem canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language family subgroup
primary subgroup of the Tupian language family
classificationStatus well-established subgroup of Tupian
country Brazil
documentationLanguage English (in comparative studies)
Portuguese (for most descriptions)
documentationStatus poorly documented subgroup
endangermentCause language shift to Portuguese
ethnolinguisticArea western Amazonia NERFINISHED
fieldOfStudy Amazonian linguistics
historical linguistics
geographicDistribution Madeira River basin NERFINISHED
Rondônia NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Arikém branch
Arikéman NERFINISHED
hasEndangeredLanguages true
hasISO6393Code none (subgroup, not individual language)
hasMemberLanguage Arikém (language) NERFINISHED
Kabixiana NERFINISHED
Karitiána NERFINISHED
hasMorphosyntacticFeature complex verb morphology
person marking on verbs
hasNotableLanguage Karitiána
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory (reconstructed tendency)
historicalStatus languages once spoken in the Amazon region of Brazil
languageFamily Tupian NERFINISHED
linguisticArea Amazonian linguistic area
locatedIn Amazon rainforest NERFINISHED
northern Brazil NERFINISHED
partOf Tupian language phylum
reconstructionStatus partially reconstructed from surviving data
region Amazon region NERFINISHED
relatedTo Mundurukú branch of Tupian
Tupí-Guaraní branch of Tupian NERFINISHED
spokenBy Arikém peoples (historically) NERFINISHED
Karitiána people NERFINISHED
spokenInThePastBy indigenous peoples of Brazil
status largely extinct subgroup
subclassOf Tupian languages NERFINISHED
indigenous languages of South America
timeDepth pre-Columbian origin
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
predominantly suffixing
usedIn ritual practices (historically)
traditional oral culture
wordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb) tendency

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Tupian majorBranch Arikem