Apurinã do Purus

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Apurinã do Purus is an Indigenous language of the Arawakan family spoken by the Apurinã people along the Purus River in Brazil.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
endangered language
indigenous language
belongsTo Apurinã culture NERFINISHED
continent South America
country Brazil
endangeredBecauseOf language shift to Portuguese
ethnicGroup Apurinã people NERFINISHED
glottocode apur1254
hasAlternativeName Apurinã NERFINISHED
Apurinã (Purus) NERFINISHED
Ipuriná NERFINISHED
Ipurinã NERFINISHED
Kangite NERFINISHED
Popengare NERFINISHED
Uapurina NERFINISHED
Uapurinã NERFINISHED
hasDomain kinship terminology
ritual practices
traditional ecological knowledge
hasFeature contrastive nasalization
distinction between oral and nasal vowels
prefixes and suffixes on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasMorphology agglutinative morphology
hasPhonemeInventory small consonant inventory (relative to world average)
hasTypology SOV word order (tendency)
hasVowelSystem oral and nasal vowels
isIndigenousTo Brazilian Amazon NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code apu
languageBranch Southern Arawakan languages
languageFamily Arawakan languages NERFINISHED
Maipurean languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus vulnerable
region Acre NERFINISHED
Amazonas NERFINISHED
Purus River NERFINISHED
spokenBy Apurinã people NERFINISHED
spokenIn indigenous territories along the Purus River
subclassOf Apurinã language NERFINISHED
subjectOf descriptive grammars of Apurinã
phonological studies of Arawakan languages
usedAlongside Brazilian Portuguese NERFINISHED
usedIn daily communication in Apurinã communities
oral storytelling
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Apurinã language alternativeName Apurinã do Purus