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Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
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409

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410

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Suyá: 351 (speakers and population); Tapayuna: 58? speakers, 59 population (1995).

Year of info

2012

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Brazil

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2010

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-10.5559,-53.0639

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359

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Kisêdjê: 300 speakers (404 total population), Tapayuna: 59 speakers (114 total population)

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2010

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Total speaker number: (2002 ISA). 334 Suya (main dialect); 58 Tapayúna (ISA 1995) 350 (2006 FUNASA). 330 Suya (main dialect); 58 Tapayúna (1995 ISA). Ethnic population: 350 (2006 FUNASA). All Tapayuna speak their native language (Crevels 2007) (2013)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Brazil;

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Mato Grosso, Xingú Park, headwaters of Rio Culuene. Tapayúnas in Pará, TI Capoto or Jarina reservation, Kayapó villages (ISA 2002)

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Mato Grosso, Xingú Park, headwaters of Rio Culuene. Tapayúnas in Pará, TI Capoto or Jarina reservation, Kayapó villages (ISA 2002)

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2007

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Brazil, Mato Grosso state, Xingu

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    Crevels, Mily. 2007. "South America." In Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 103-196. London & New York: Routledge.
  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
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    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
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  8. A. Foresti
    (Kisêdhê), Phonological Aspects of Suyá. A. Foresti. Master thesis, University of Manchester, 2005.
  9. Suyá: a língua da gente, um estudo fonológico e grammatical
    Guedes, Marymarcia. Suyá: a Língua Da Gente, Um Estudo Fonológico E Grammatical. PhD thesis, São Paulo: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 1992.
  10. Die Yarumá- und Arawine-Indianer Zentralbrasiliens
    Krause, Fritz. 1936. "Die Yarumá- Und Arawine-Indianer Zentralbrasiliens." In Baessler-Archiv: Beiträge zur Völkerkunde, XIX: 32-44.
  11. The Tribes of the Upper Xingu River
    Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1948. "The Tribes of the Upper Xingu River." In The Tropical Forest Tribes, edited by Julian H. Steward. 3: 321-348. Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology.