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Language contact and word structure: a case study from north-west Amazonia
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Critically Endangered

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90

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About 50 of the Wamiarikune dialect. About 40 of the Kumandene dailect (Aikhenvald 2014).

Year of info

2016

Location and Context

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Brazil

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Tukano

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100

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Year of info

2010

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.8349,-69.1918

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430

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100 in Brazil (Aikhenvald 1996). Ethnic population: 1,500 in Brazil (Rodrigues 1986). 330 in Colombia (Moyano 2007). Ethnic population: 445.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Brazil; Colombia;

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Location description

Brazil: Amazonas, Middle Vaupés River, Santa Rosa (Juquira), Iauarete, Periquitos, and Ji-Ponta. Colombia: Vaupés region, Lower Papurí.

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Brazil: Amazonas, Middle Vaupés River, Santa Rosa (Juquira), Iauarete, Periquitos, and Ji-Ponta. Colombia: Vaupés region, Lower Papurí.

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Ethnic Population

1910

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100 in Brazil. Ethnic population: 1,910 (2002 ISA). Dormant in Colombia.

Year of info

2016

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Brazil, Colombia

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100

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2,359

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There are 100 speakers out of an ethnic population of 1914 people in Brazil (2002), and it is possibly extinct in Colombia where it has an ethnic population of 445 people (2001).

Year of info

2012

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Brazil and Colombia

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2,244

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Speaker number: Approximately 100 in Brazil. The language is possibly extinct in Colombia

Year of info

2007

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Brazil and Colombia

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2005

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1.0,-69.1666666667

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