Resigaro

E618317

Resigaro is an indigenous Arawakan language of the northwestern Amazon, traditionally spoken by a small community in the Peru–Brazil border region and now critically endangered.

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Resigaro canonical 1

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instanceOf Arawakan language
critically endangered language
indigenous language
belongsTo indigenous languages of Brazil
indigenous languages of Peru
borderRegion Peru–Brazil border region
continent South America
country Brazil
Peru
documentationStatus poorly documented
endangermentCause assimilation policies
language shift to Spanish
small speaker population
ethnicGroup Resígaro people
hasContactWith Bora language
Spanish language
intergenerationalTransmission severely disrupted
isMinorityLanguageIn Brazil
Peru
isSpokenBy indigenous community
languageBranch Western Arawakan
languageFamily Arawakan languages
lexicalInfluenceFrom Bora language
Spanish language
linguisticArea Northwestern Amazonian linguistic area
macroArea Amazonia
morphologicalType agglutinative language
numberOfSpeakers very few
region northwestern Amazon
revitalizationNeed urgent
speakerCommunitySize small community
status critically endangered
subfamily Northern Arawakan languages
linked to: Arawakan languages
threatenedBy dominance of Portuguese
dominance of Spanish
traditionalLifestyleOfSpeakers hunting and fishing
riverine communities
subsistence agriculture
typologicalFeature complex person marking
derivational verbal affixes
rich verbal morphology
UNESCOStatus critically endangered
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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