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Critically Endangered

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There is one speaker remaining, she lives in Sauba, a villiage in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Brazil

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Severely Endangered

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2010

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3.9957,-63.5888

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There are 17 speakers in Brazil (SIL 1986). (Unchanged 2016.)

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2009

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Venezuela; Brazil;

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2007

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Venezuela

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29 in Venezuela

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Perhaps one or two semi-speakers? Uruák’s status is in doubt; it appears unlikely that any speakers remain; however, this needs urgently to be confirmed. Only 5 remaining speakers were reported in the 1960s, intermarried with Ninam (Yanomaman) speakers (Migliazza 1978:135). Coppens (1970b) reported that the Uruák were highly integrated into Sanuma (Yanomaman) culture and spoke Sanuma in their daily conversations. Laura Perozo (2008:774-5) reported that the sociocultural research team found no speakers of Uruák, but they did encounter one person in the village of Karukén who claimed to be a speaker of both Uruák and Sapé, though it was not possible to verify this.

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Venezuela, Brazil

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Uruák (a.k.a. Awaké, Ahuaqué, Urutani, Arutani) was spoken on the upper Paragua and Uraricaá rivers near Mount Urutani of the Venezuela- Brazil border.

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Uruák (a.k.a. Awaké, Ahuaqué, Urutani, Arutani) was spoken on the upper Paragua and Uraricaá rivers near Mount Urutani of the Venezuela- Brazil border.

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