Social:Apalaí language

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Short description: Cariban language spoken in Brazil
Apalaí
Native toBrazil
EthnicityAparai people
Native speakers
650 (2022)e25
Cariban
  • (unclassified)
    • Apalaí
Language codes
ISO 639-3apy
Glottologapal1257[1]

Apalaí is a Cariban language spoken in Brazil . Approximately 450 people speak Apalaí. It is an agglutinative language which uses a rare object–verb–subject word order.[2]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Apalai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/apal1257. 
  2. "Apalai Indian Language (Aparai)". http://www.native-languages.org/apalai.htm. 

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