Resigaro

E618317

Resigaro is an indigenous Arawakan language of the northwestern Amazon, traditionally spoken by a small community in the Peru–Brazil border region and now critically endangered.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
critically endangered language
indigenous language
belongsTo indigenous languages of Brazil
indigenous languages of Peru
borderRegion Peru–Brazil border region NERFINISHED
continent South America
country Brazil
Peru
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentCause assimilation policies
language shift to Spanish
small speaker population
ethnicGroup Resígaro people NERFINISHED
hasContactWith Bora language NERFINISHED
Spanish language
intergenerationalTransmission severely disrupted
isMinorityLanguageIn Brazil NERFINISHED
Peru NERFINISHED
isSpokenBy indigenous community
languageBranch Western Arawakan NERFINISHED
languageFamily Arawakan languages
lexicalInfluenceFrom Bora language NERFINISHED
Spanish language
linguisticArea Northwestern Amazonian linguistic area NERFINISHED
macroArea Amazonia NERFINISHED
morphologicalType agglutinative language
numberOfSpeakers very few
region northwestern Amazon
revitalizationNeed urgent
speakerCommunitySize small community
status critically endangered
subfamily Northern Arawakan languages NERFINISHED
threatenedBy dominance of Portuguese
dominance of Spanish
traditionalLifestyleOfSpeakers hunting and fishing
riverine communities
subsistence agriculture
typologicalFeature complex person marking
derivational verbal affixes
rich verbal morphology
UNESCOStatus critically endangered
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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