Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Endangered languages

Vilela

Language; Endangered languages

Vilela (Uakambalelté, Atalalá, Chulupí~Chunupí)[1] is a nearly extinct language which is only spoken in the Resistencia province of Argentina and in the eastern Chaco near the Paraguayan border. ...

Sirionó (also Mbia Chee, Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 speakers (50 are monolingual) in eastern Bolivia (eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz ...

Ona

Language; Endangered languages

Ona (Aona), also known as Selk'nam (Shelknam), is a language that was once spoken by the Selknam people in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in southernmost South America. As of 1991 there were 1-3 ...

Araona

Language; Endangered languages

Araona or Cavina is an indigenous language spoken by the South American Araona people; about 90% of the 90 Araona people are fluent (W. Adelaar). The Araonans live in the headwaters of the Manupari ...

Tapieté

Language; Endangered languages

Tapieté is a subdialect of Eastern Bolivian Guaraní spoken by 33 Paraguayans (Out of an ethnic group numbering 513 to 1,519), 100 Argentines, and 70 Bolivians. It is also known as Guasurango, ...

Lapachu

Language; Endangered languages

Lapachu, also known as Apolista, is an extinct Arawakan language of Bolivia. Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it together with Terena, Moxos, and related languages. It is not clear from surviving ...