Xingu Arawak languages
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The Xingu Arawak languages are a group of closely related Arawakan languages spoken by Indigenous communities in Brazil’s Xingu region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Xingu Arawak languages canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan languages
ⓘ
language group ⓘ |
| arealFeature |
intensive contact with Carib languages
ⓘ
intensive contact with Tupi languages ⓘ lexical borrowing from Carib languages ⓘ lexical borrowing from Tupi languages ⓘ |
| arealGroup | Upper Xingu linguistic area ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| ethnolinguisticGroup |
Mehináku people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Waurá people NERFINISHED ⓘ Yawalapiti people NERFINISHED ⓘ other Upper Xingu Arawak groups ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution | Upper Xingu River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Anauyá language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kujubim language NERFINISHED ⓘ Mehináku language NERFINISHED ⓘ Pareci-Xingu variety ⓘ Waurá language NERFINISHED ⓘ Yawalapiti language ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Arawakan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linguisticRelationship |
closely related to each other
ⓘ
part of Southern Arawak branch (often classified) ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Xingu region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| macroRegion | Amazon basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Upper Xingu multilingual system ⓘ |
| region | Central Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| researchField |
Amazonian linguistics
ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ language contact studies ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Indigenous peoples of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Xingu Indigenous Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Arawakan languages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maipurean languages ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
comparative Arawakan studies
ⓘ
descriptive grammars of individual Xingu Arawak languages ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
SOV basic word order (tendency)
ⓘ
agglutinative morphology (tendency) ⓘ head-marking on verbs ⓘ possessive marking on nouns ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| usedFor |
interethnic communication in Upper Xingu
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual practices ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin script (practical orthographies) ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.