Kuikuro

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Kuikuro is a Cariban language spoken by the Kuikuro people of Brazil’s Upper Xingu region in the Amazon.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cariban language
language
belongsToSubfamily Southern Cariban NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Kalapalo language NERFINISHED
Matipu language NERFINISHED
country Brazil
endangeredStatus vulnerable
hasCommunity Kuikuro villages of Upper Xingu
hasDialects Kuikuro-Kalapalo NERFINISHED
hasFeature agglutinative morphology
evidentiality distinctions
noun classifiers
postpositions
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
tonal or pitch-accent-like distinctions
hasRevitalizationEfforts community-based language documentation projects
ISO639-3Code kui NERFINISHED
isPartOf Upper Xingu linguistic area
languageFamily Cariban NERFINISHED
region Mato Grosso NERFINISHED
spokenBy Kuikuro people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Amazon Basin NERFINISHED
Brazil NERFINISHED
Upper Xingu region NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication in Kuikuro villages
oral tradition
ritual practices
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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