Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Amanaye

Language; Endangered languages

Amanayé is a possibly extinct Tupi language last spoken in the São Domingos do Capim Municipality on the Capim River in Brazil.

Arutani is a nearly extinct language spoken by only 17 individuals in Roraima, Brazil and two others in the Karum River area of Bolivar State, Venezuela. It is one of the most poorly attested extant ...

Djeoromitxi

Language; Endangered languages

Djeoromitxi or Jabutí is an nearly extinct Yabutian language that as of 1990 was spoken by only five people in Rondônia, Brazil, at the headwaters of the Rio Branco. The language of the Djeoromitxí ...

Kagwahiva

Language; Endangered languages

Kagwahiva (Kawahíb, Kagwahibm) is a Tupi–Guarani dialect cluster of Brazil. The major variety is Tenharim (Tenharem, Tenharin). The Tenharim, Parintintín, Amondawa, Uru-eu-wau-wau, Júma, and Karipuná ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...