Guajá

E597723

Guajá is an indigenous language of the Tupi–Guaraní family spoken by the Guajá people of the Brazilian Amazon.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Awá-Guajá 1
Guajá canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
indigenous language
basicWordOrder SOV
continent South America
country Brazil
endangeredStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroupAssociated Guajá people
geneticallyRelatedTo Guaraní language
linked to: Guaraní

Tenetehára language
linked to: Tenetehara language

Tupi language
hasAlternativeName Awá
Awá-Guajá
linked to: Guajá
ISO639-3Code gvj
languageBranch Tupi–Guaraní
languageFamily Tupian
linguisticArea Amazonian languages area
partOfLanguageFamily Tupian language family
linked to: Tupian languages
primaryHabitatOfSpeakers tropical rainforest
region Amazon rainforest
spokenBy Guajá people
spokenIn Brazil
Brazilian Amazon
linked to: Amazon rainforest

state of Maranhão
linked to: Maranhão
status endangered language
subfamilyOf Tupi–Guaraní branch
linked to: Tupi–Guaraní
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
usedBy indigenous community
usedFor oral communication
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Guajá hasAlternativeName Awá-Guajá
linked to: Guajá