Kamayurá
[aka Kamaiurá, Camaiura, Kamayirá]Classification: Tupian
·endangered
- DATE OF INFO
- 2008 (speaker numbers); 2006 (ethic population)
- PLACES
- Brazil
Language metadata
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Kamaiurá, Camaiura, Kamayirá, Kamayura, Kamayur, Camaiurá |
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Tupian, Tupi-Guaranian |
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ISO 639-3 |
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kay |
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Language information by source
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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter
Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)” . Paul M. Lewis; Gary F. Simons; and Charles D. Fennig · Dallas, Texas: SIL International
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Endangered
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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400
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520
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360 (2002 ISA)
400 (2011 S. Drude). Ethnic population: 520 (2009 FUNASA) (2014)
- DATE OF INFO
- 2011 (speaker numbers); 2014 (ethnic population)
- MORE ON VITALITY
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"All children learn Kamayura as their L1 (2011)"
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
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Portuguese
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
"Used as L2 by Awetí"
- Scripts (Writing system)
- Latin
- PLACES
- Brazil;
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"Mato Grosso, Xingú park."
Information from: “South America” (103-196) . Mily Crevels (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
- DATE OF INFO
- 2002
- PLACES
- Brazil
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Mato Grosso, Parque Indigena do Xingu, one village about 9km to the north of Posto Leonardo Villas-Boas, near to the south bank of Lake Ipavu, 6km from the Kuluene River.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press