Pirahã
Pirahán; Piraha; Múra-Pirahã; Mura-Piraha; Pirahá;
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Note that FUNASA (2010) lists 420 (figure also cited in Povos Indígenas no Brasil (2014)).
2012
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2010
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1,500
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Some also use Portuguese. (2016 unchanged.)
2013
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1986
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"The people are almost completely monolingual."
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Most men understand Portuguese, though not all can express themselves in this language. Women understand very little Portuguese and never use it to express themselves.
2007
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Amazonas State, Tapajos and Madeira rivers area, on the Maici River, a tributari of the Marmelos which again flows into the Madeira, Terra Indigena Piraha.
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Amazonas State, Tapajos and Madeira rivers area, on the Maici River, a tributari of the Marmelos which again flows into the Madeira, Terra Indigena Piraha.
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- 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 University2012. "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."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)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/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
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