Piapoco

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Piapoco is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Piapoco people primarily in eastern Colombia and neighboring regions of Venezuela.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
indigenous language
belongsToMacroArea Amazonian
continent South America
country Colombia
Venezuela
ethnicGroup Piapoco NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Piapoco Arawak NERFINISHED
Piapoko NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasCommunityEfforts language maintenance
hasConsonantInventory moderate-sized consonant inventory typical of Arawakan languages
hasDomain home and community domains
hasGrammaticalGender true
hasLanguageContactWith Spanish NERFINISHED
other Orinoco basin indigenous languages
hasLanguageDocumentation dictionaries
grammatical descriptions
text collections
hasLexicalSimilarityWith other Northern Arawakan languages
hasLinguisticTypology SOV-dominant word order
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNumberDistinction singular and plural
hasOralLiterature true
hasPersonMarking on verbs
hasPhylum Arawakan NERFINISHED
hasPossessionMarking on nouns
hasPronominalSystem bound person markers
hasStressPattern predictable stress system
hasVowelInventory five-vowel system
hasWordOrderFlexibility true
hasYoungerSpeakerDecline true
isEndangered true
ISO639-3Code pio NERFINISHED
isSubjectToLanguageShiftTowards Spanish
languageFamily Arawakan NERFINISHED
languageFamilyBranch Maipurean NERFINISHED
region Orinoco River basin NERFINISHED
eastern Colombia NERFINISHED
spokenBy Piapoco people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Colombia NERFINISHED
Venezuela NERFINISHED
subfamily Northern Arawakan NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication within Piapoco communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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