Japrería language

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The Japrería language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Japrería people of Venezuela, closely associated with neighboring Yukpa communities.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
Cariban language
indigenous language
basicWordOrder SOV
belongsTo indigenous languages of Venezuela
closelyAssociatedWith Yukpa language NERFINISHED
Yukpa people NERFINISHED
continent South America
country Venezuela
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentCause language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Japrería people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Hapreria
Haprería NERFINISHED
Japreria NERFINISHED
Yapreria NERFINISHED
Yaprería NERFINISHED
Yaprería Carib NERFINISHED
hasCode Glottocode: japr1234
hasConsonantInventory includes glottalized stops
hasDomain home and community use
hasFeature noun classifiers (limited)
postpositions rather than prepositions
rich verbal morphology
hasLimitedUseIn formal education
hasMorphology agglutinative morphology
hasPhylum Macro-Cariban (proposed) NERFINISHED
hasResearchField Cariban linguistics
hasSpeakerCommunity Japrería settlements in Sierra de Perijá
hasVowelInventory five-vowel system (a e i o u)
ISO639-3 jru
languageFamily Cariban
languageStatus endangered language
linguisticTypology head-marking language
majorContactLanguage Spanish NERFINISHED
neighboringLanguage Wayuu language NERFINISHED
Yukpa language NERFINISHED
region Sierra de Perijá NERFINISHED
spokenBy Japrería people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Venezuela NERFINISHED
Zulia State NERFINISHED
subFamily Yukpa–Japrería NERFINISHED
UNESCOStatus definitely endangered (approximate classification)
usedIn ritual contexts
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Yukpa language closelyRelatedTo Japrería language