Kuikuro-Kalapalo
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Kuikuro-Kalapalo is a Cariban language spoken by Indigenous communities in Brazil’s Upper Xingu region of the Amazon.
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cariban language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ language ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Kalapalo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kuikuro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDialect |
Kalapalo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kuikuro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation |
grammatical sketches
ⓘ
lexical databases ⓘ linguistic fieldwork descriptions ⓘ |
| hasISOStatus | no widely standardized ISO 639-3 code (as of 2024, classification varies in sources) ⓘ |
| hasMorphology |
complex verbal morphology
ⓘ
prefixing and suffixing morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonology |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasTypology | agglutinative language ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| indigenousTo |
Amazon rainforest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Cariban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus |
endangered language
ⓘ
minority language ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Upper Xingu Indigenous Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Upper Xingu cultural area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Mato Grosso, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Kalapalo language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kuikuro language ⓘ other Cariban languages ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Kalapalo people
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kuikuro people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Amazon Basin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Xingu region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subclassOf | Upper Xingu Cariban language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
research on Cariban languages
ⓘ
research on Upper Xingu multilingualism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication
ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ ritual practices ⓘ |
| usedIn | intercommunity communication in the Upper Xingu ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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