Parecís

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Parecís is an Arawakan language spoken by the Paresí (Haliti) Indigenous people of Brazil, primarily in the state of Mato Grosso.

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Parecís canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
Brazilian indigenous language
indigenous language
alternativeName Haliti-Paresí
linked to: Haliti

Paresí
linked to: Paresi

Paresí-Haliti
belongsToMacroFamily Maipurean (Arawakan) languages
linked to: Arawakan languages
closelyRelatedTo Enawené-Nawé language
Terena language
continent South America
countryOfficialLanguageOf none
documentedBy field linguists in Brazil
endangeredStatusSource UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
hasCommunityEfforts bilingual education projects
documentation of traditional stories
language revitalization programs
hasDomain cultural and ceremonial contexts
home and community use
hasEducationalMaterial literacy primers
pedagogical grammars
hasGlottocode pare1273
hasGlottologName Paresi
hasLinguisticFeature SOV basic word order
agglutinative morphology
noun classifiers
possessive marking on nouns
prefixes on verbs
suffixes on verbs
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment nominative-accusative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between oral and nasal vowels
simple consonant inventory
hasSpeakerShiftTo Portuguese
ISO639-3Code pab
languageFamily Arawakan
languageStatus vulnerable
primaryContactLanguage Portuguese
region Central Brazil
spokenByEthnicGroup Haliti people
Paresí people
spokenInCountry Brazil
spokenInState Mato Grosso
subfamily Southern Arawakan
usedFor daily communication within Paresí communities
oral literature
traditional rituals
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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