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Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

980

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

1064

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800 Jamamadí, 180 Jarawara (Crevels counts these as separate languages)

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Brazil

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

900

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

Countries

Brazil

Coordinates

-9.0424,-68.3789

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

480

Domains of Use

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12 Mamoria, 100 Banawá, 180 Jaruára.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Brazil;

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~800

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Ethnic Population

800

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

Countries

Brazil

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Location description

Acre and Amazonas states, Middle Purus region; on the Curia and Saburrun (Sabuha) streams, tributaries of the Piranhas River and on the Mamoriazinho, Capana, Santana, and Teruini streams, tributaries of the Purus, in five homologated indigenous areas.

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Acre and Amazonas states, Middle Purus region; on the Curia and Saburrun (Sabuha) streams, tributaries of the Piranhas River and on the Mamoriazinho, Capana, Santana, and Teruini streams, tributaries of the Purus, in five homologated indigenous areas.

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

Brazil

Coordinates

-7.5,-65.5

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

195

Domains of Use

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  1. Les dialectes Pano du Haut Juruá et du Haut Purus
    Rivet, Paul and C. Tastevin. 1927, 1929. "Les Dialectes Pano Du Haut Juruá Et Du Haut Purus." In Anthropos, XXII, XXIV: 811-827, 489-516.
  2. Evidentiality in Jarawara
    Dixon, Robert M. W. 2003. "Evidentiality in Jarawara." In Studies in Evidentiality, edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon. 165-187. John Benjamins.
  3. The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia
    Dixon, R. M. W. 2004. "The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia." Oxford University Press.
  4. Chandless, W. 1869. .In The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 39: 296-311.
  5. Carvalho, José Cândido de Melo. 1955. .13: Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional.
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    Anonby, Stan and Sandy Anonby. 2007. "A Report On Three Arauan Speech Varieties (Jamamadi, Jarawara, and Banawá) of the Amazon."
  7. Banawá phonemic statement
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  8. Gender and Gender Agreement in Jarawara (Arawa)
    Vogel, Alan. Gender and Gender Agreement in Jarawara (Arawa). Master thesis, Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington, 1989.
  9. Jarawara Verb Classes
    Vogel, Alan. Jarawara Verb Classes. PhD thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2003.
  10. Chez les Indiens du Haut Jurua
    Tastevin, Constant. 1924. "Chez Les Indiens Du Haut Jurua." In Les Missions Catholiques, 56: 65-67, 78-80, 90-93.
  11. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
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  12. District Jafi-Jamas
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  16. Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
    Crevels, Mily. 2012. "Language Endangerment in South America: The Clock Is Ticking." In The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Hans Henrich Hock et al.. 167-234. Mouton de Gruyter.
  17. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    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.)
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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.)
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  19. South America
    Crevels, Mily. 2007. "South America." In Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 103-196. London & New York: Routledge.