Apuriná

[aka Ipuriná, Kangite, Apurinã]

Classification: Arawakan

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endangered

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Description and Documentation of the Apurinã (Arawak) Language of Brazil: Grammar, Dictionary and Text Collection

http://hdl.handle.net/2196/4ad42d29-6134-4c9e-8535-2a394677ba20

Apurinã belongs to the Arawak family, with a few hundreds of speakers scattered along the tributaries of the Purus river basin, in Northwestern Brazilian Amazon. The collection here includes a preliminary sketch of the grammar of the language, a lexicon for fauna and flora and a few texts transcribed and interlinearized.

Vasiliki Vita

ELAR

Jan. 1, 2006

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