Also Known As:
Aré, Sheta, Cheta, Šetá, Shetá, Heta, Notobotocudo, Chetá, Setá, Ssetá, Yvaparé, Botocudo
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
Tribo em extinção tem apenas oito remanescentes e poucos mantêm o conhecimento da língua
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informaçoes sobre remanescentes xetás no PR
Critically Endangered
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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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.
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Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
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Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral. Personal communication, October, 2014. On Xetá.
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:
Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral. Personal communication, October, 2014. On Xetá.