Tariano

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Tariano is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Tariana people of the northwest Amazon region in Brazil.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language
natural language
belongsToCulturalArea Northwest Amazonia NERFINISHED
country Brazil
ethnicGroup Tariana people NERFINISHED
glottocode tari1258
hasAlternativeName Tariana NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeSpelling Tariana NERFINISHED
hasClauseType complex clause chaining
hasDocumentedGrammar A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia NERFINISHED
hasEvidentialityType obligatory verbal evidentials
hasFeature case marking
complex verbal morphology
evidentiality system
gender marking
number marking
hasLanguageEndangermentCause language shift to Portuguese
language shift to Tucano
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
verb-final tendencies
hasMorphologicalAlignment nominative-accusative tendencies
hasNeighborLanguageContact Baniwa NERFINISHED
Portuguese NERFINISHED
Tucano NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone (limited or marginal)
nasal harmony
hasResearcher Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald NERFINISHED
hasShiftPressureFrom Portuguese
Tucano NERFINISHED
hasSociolinguisticFeature linguistic exogamy area participation
hasSpeakerCommunity Vaupés River Basin multilingual area
ISO639-3Code tae
isSpokenAlong Rio Negro NERFINISHED
Uaupés River NERFINISHED
languageFamily Arawakan NERFINISHED
primaryContactLanguage Portuguese
Tucano NERFINISHED
region Amazonas state NERFINISHED
spokenBy Tariana people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Brazil NERFINISHED
northwest Amazon region NERFINISHED
status endangered language
subfamily Northern Arawakan NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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