Yawalapiti language
E618294
The Yawalapiti language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Yawalapiti people of Brazil’s Upper Xingu region in the Amazon.
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
|
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.