Social:Apalaí language
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Short description: Cariban language spoken in Brazil
| Apalaí | |
|---|---|
| Aparaí | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Ethnicity | Aparai people |
Native speakers | 650 (2022)e25 |
Cariban
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | apy |
| Glottolog | apal1257[1] |
| Linguasphere | 80-AGA-aa |
 Apalai is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Apalaí is a Cariban language spoken in Brazil. Approximately 450 Aparai people speak Apalaí. It is an agglutinative language which uses a rare object–verb–subject word order.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ʔ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | ||||
| voiced | z | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Tap/Flap | ɾ | ||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | nasal | plain | nasal | plain | nasal | |
| High | i | ĩ | ɨ | ɨ̃ | u | ũ |
| Mid | e | ẽ | o | õ | ||
| Low | a | ã | ||||
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Apalai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/apal1257.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Koehn, Edward and Sally Koehn. 1971. Fonologia da Língua Apalai. Estudos Sôbre Línguas E Culturas Indígenas. Brasília: Instituto Lingüístico de Verão. 17-28.
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