Also Known As:
Ayurú, Wayurú, Ajurú, Uaiora, Wajaru, Wayru, Uaioró, Ajuru
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
This collection will contain documentation of five of the most urgently endangered native languages
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
5
Native Speakers Worldwide
Speaker Number Trends
Speaker Number Trend 5
A small percentage of the community speaks the language, and speaker numbers are decreasing very rapidly.
5
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Nogueira, Antonia Fernanda de Souza. 2011. Wayoro ẽmẽto:
fonologia segmental e morfossintaxe verbal. Universidade de São Paulo M.A. thesis.
Bibliography of Locations:
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.)
Bibliography of Context:
Nogueira, Antonia Fernanda de Souza. 2011. Wayoro ẽmẽto:
fonologia segmental e morfossintaxe verbal. Universidade de São Paulo M.A. thesis.