Apalaí | |
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Native to | Brazil |
Ethnicity | Aparai people |
Native speakers
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450 (1993)[1] |
Cariban
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | apy |
Glottolog | apal1257 [2] |
Apalaí is a Cariban language spoken in Brazil. Approximately 450 people speak Apalaí. It is an agglutinative language which is remarkable for using a rare object–verb–subject word order.[3]
References
- ^ Apalaí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Apalai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ "Apalai Indian Language (Aparai)". Retrieved 21 February 2016.
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