Juruna

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Juruna is an indigenous language group of the Tupian family, traditionally spoken by the Juruna people of the Amazon region in Brazil.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language
indigenous language group
belongsToBranch Juruna language subgroup of Tupian NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Xipaya language NERFINISHED
continent South America
country Brazil
endangermentStatus endangered language
ethnicGroupAssociated Juruna people NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution central Brazil
hasAlternativeName Jurúna NERFINISHED
Yudjá NERFINISHED
hasCulturalRole marker of Juruna ethnic identity
vehicle of traditional knowledge
hasDocumentationType dictionaries
grammars
text collections
hasDomain indigenous languages of South America
hasLanguageRevitalizationEffort community-based education programs
documentation by linguists
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasMorphologicalFeature person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
nasal vowels
oral vowels
hasSpeakerCommunity Xingu Indigenous Territory NERFINISHED
hasSyntacticFeature head-marking
postpositions
hasWordOrder SOV
ISO639-3Code jur
languageFamily Tupian NERFINISHED
linguisticArea Amazonian languages area
locatedAlong Xingu River NERFINISHED
memberOf Tupian language family NERFINISHED
region Amazon Basin NERFINISHED
spokenBy Juruna people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Amazon region NERFINISHED
Brazil NERFINISHED
statusInBrazil recognized indigenous language
subfamilyOf Juruna language branch
usedFor daily communication within Juruna communities
ritual practices
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Tupian majorBranch Juruna