Yawalapiti language

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The Yawalapiti language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Yawalapiti people of Brazil’s Upper Xingu region in the Amazon.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yawalapiti language canonical 2

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
endangered language
indigenous language of the Americas
belongsToMacroArea South American languages macro-area
continent South America
country Brazil
ethnicGroup Yawalapiti NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Jawalapiti NERFINISHED
Yawalapití NERFINISHED
hasContactWith Kamayurá language NERFINISHED
Kuikuro language NERFINISHED
Waurá language NERFINISHED
hasDomain mythology
ritual practices
traditional ecological knowledge
hasEndangermentCause dominance of Portuguese in education
intergenerational transmission decline
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasMorphologicalFeature number marking on nouns
person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
nasal vowels
oral vowels
hasSpeakerCommunity Yawalapiti village communities
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
ISO639-3Code yaw
isPartOf Upper Xingu cultural area NERFINISHED
languageFamily Arawakan
languageFamilyBranch Maipurean
region Mato Grosso state NERFINISHED
spokenBy Yawalapiti people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Amazon Basin NERFINISHED
Brazil NERFINISHED
Upper Xingu region NERFINISHED
status severely endangered
subfamily Southern Arawakan NERFINISHED
threatenedBy language shift to Portuguese
language shift to other Upper Xingu lingua francas
usedFor daily communication within Yawalapiti community
oral tradition
ritual speech
usedIn Upper Xingu Indigenous Park NERFINISHED
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.

Paresí–Xingu subgroup hasMember Yawalapiti language
Xingu peoples usesLanguage Yawalapiti language