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ALSO KNOWN AS		Apiacá, Apiake
CLASSIFICATION		Tupian, Tupi-Guaranian, Tupi-Kawahib
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		api
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Information from: “Personal communication about Apiaká” . Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral (2016)

Dormant
Ø
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
There are only 3 remembers, but they are not fluent speakers, the last fluent speaker, Seu Pedrinho, died four years ago.

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No fluent speakers; 3 rememberers.

PLACES: Brazil

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
4
Native speakers worldwide
ELDERS
4
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Presentemente, existem apenas quatro falantes de Apiaká, todos com mais de 50 anos, embora os professores Apiaká venham tentando retomar a língua há anos, por meio da escola.
[Presently, there exist scarcely 4 speakers of Apiaká, all over 50 years old, although Apiaká teachers have been trying for some years to recover the language, through the school.]

DATE OF INFO: 2009 / 2013?

PLACES: Brazil

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
1000

DATE OF INFO: 2009

PLACES: Brazil

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Mato Grosso state: upper Rio Tapajos, Slo Manoel confluence; a few in Pará state.

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
190
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
192
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Information for the number of native speakers and for ethnic population comes from ISA (2001).

1 (Tempesta 2009). Ethnic population: 1,000 (Tempesta 2009) (2013).

PLACES: Brazil

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Northern Mato Grosso State, upper Rio Tapajos, near confluence of Slo Manoel; smaller area across border in Para State.

	2.1	2013	Guerreiros, riquezas e onças nas rotas fluviais: Notas históricas e etnográficas sobre os Apiaká	77-97				evista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica	2			Tempesta, Giovana Acacia	Tempesta, Giovana Acacia. "Guerreiros, riquezas e onças nas rotas fluviais: Notas históricas e etnográficas sobre os Apiaká." Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica 2.1 (2013): 77-97.			4	2009 / 2013?	1-9	Presentemente, existem apenas quatro falantes de Apiaká, todos com mais de 50 anos, embora os professores Apiaká venham tentando retomar a língua há anos, por meio da escola. [Presently, there exist scarcely 4 speakers of Apiaká, all over 50 years old, although Apiaká teachers have been trying for some years to recover the language, through the school.]	4	Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Brazil
16		2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)		M. Paul Lewis		SIL International			Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	192	190		100-999	Information for the number of native speakers and for ethnic population comes from ISA (2001). 1 (Tempesta 2009). Ethnic population: 1,000 (Tempesta 2009) (2013).		Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Brazil	Northern Mato Grosso State, upper Rio Tapajos, near confluence of Slo Manoel; smaller area across border in Para State.
		2016	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 19th Edition (2016)		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig	online	SIL International			Dallas, Texas	http://www.ethnologue.com		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2016. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Nineteenth edition (2016). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.		1000	1	2009	1-9			Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)		Mato Grosso state: upper Rio Tapajos, Slo Manoel confluence; a few in Pará state.	Brazil
3rd		2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing			Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		1		1-9			Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)					-11.1519,-57.3113
			World Oral Literature Project								http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			2		1-9			Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
		2016	Personal communication about Apiaká			Personal communication						Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral	(Personal communication about Apiaká. Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral. 2016			Ø			There are only 3 remembers, but they are not fluent speakers, the last fluent speaker, Seu Pedrinho, died four years ago.		Dormant ()	No fluent speakers; 3 rememberers.		Brazil

Apiaká

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Dormant

Ø

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

190

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Apiaká

Language metadata

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Dormant

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Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

2

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

4

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

190

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