Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Pirahã

Language; Endangered languages

Pirahã (also spelled Pirahá, Pirahán) is a language spoken by the Pirahã. The Pirahã are an indigenous people of Amazonas, Brazil, living along the Maici River, a tributary of the Amazon. Pirahã is ...

Tariana

Language; Endangered languages

Tariana (also Tariano) is an endangered Maipurean language spoken along the Vaupés River in Amazonas, Brazil by approximately 100 people. Another approximately 1500 people in the upper and middle ...

Ofayé

Language; Endangered languages

The Ofayé or Opaye language, also Ofaié-Xavante, Opaié-Shavante, forms its own branch of the Macro-Gê languages. It is spoken by about a quarter of the small Ofayé people, though language ...

Sikiana

Language; Endangered languages

Sikiana is a Carib language that was spoken by 33 people in Brazil and 15 people in Suriname. It was spoken in Venezuela at one time and is now probably extinct there. Sikiana as a whole is near ...

Mapidian

Language; Endangered languages

Mapidian (Maopidyán) is a moribund Arawakan language of Brazil and formerly of Guyana. Some linguistics classified it as a dialect of Wapishana.

Tremembé

Language; Endangered languages

It is an extinct unclassified language of Brazil. It was originally spoken by the Tremembé people, who once inhabited the northern Brazilian coasts from Pará to Ceará. The Tremembé were described as ...

Xipaya

Language; Endangered languages

Xipaya (or Shipaja or Xipaia) is an endangered language spoken in the Pará region of Brazil. It is one of the approximately 70 Tupian languages of South America. At last count, Xipaya was only spoken ...