Txikiyana

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Txikiyana is a dialectal variety of the Tiriyó language spoken by an Indigenous community in the Amazon region of northern South America.

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Txikiyana canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
dialectal variety
belongsToMacroArea Amazonia
continent South America
endangeredStatus likely endangered
hasAlternativeName Txikiyana dialect
hasLinguisticRelationWith Tiriyó language
hasSpeakersType Indigenous peoples of the Amazon
hasStatus local community language
hasTypologicalFeature SOV word order tendency (inherited from Tiriyó)
agglutinative morphology (inherited from Tiriyó)
isMinorityLanguageIn South America
isOralTraditionDominant true
languageFamily Cariban languages
linked to: Carib languages
partOf Tiriyó language
regionType rainforest
sharesGrammarWith Tiriyó language
sharesLexiconWith Tiriyó language
spokenBy Indigenous community
spokenIn Amazon region
northern South America
subdivisionOf Tiriyó language
usedFor everyday communication within the community
traditional cultural practices
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Tiriyó language hasDialects Txikiyana