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(Redirected from Apalai language) Cariban language spoken in Brazil
Apalaí
Native toBrazil
EthnicityAparai people
Native speakers650 (2022)
Language familyCariban
  • (unclassified)
    • Apalaí
Language codes
ISO 639-3apy
Glottologapal1257
ELPApalaí

Apalaí is a Cariban language spoken in Brazil. Approximately 450 people speak Apalaí. It is an agglutinative language which uses a rare object–verb–subject word order.

References

  1. Apalaí at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. "Apalai Indian Language (Aparai)". Retrieved 21 February 2016.

External links

  • Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Apalaí". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.
Languages of Brazil
Official language
Regional languages
Indigenous
languages
Arawakan
Arawan
Cariban
Panoan
Macro-Jê
Nadahup
Tupian
Chapacuran
Tukanoan
Nambikwaran
Others
Interlanguages
Sign languages
Non-official
Cariban languages
Parukotoan
Pekodian
Venezuelan Carib
Pemóng–Panare
Mapoyo–Tamanaku
Guianan Carib
Taranoan
Unclassified
Paravilyana–Sapará
Italics indicate extinct languages



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