Tarëno

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Tarëno is an alternative name for the Tiriyó language, a Cariban language spoken by the Tiriyó people in parts of Brazil and Suriname.

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Tarëno canonical 4

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cariban language
language
alternativeNameOf Tiriyó language
belongsTo indigenous languages of Brazil
indigenous languages of Suriname
continent South America
country Brazil
Suriname
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Tiriyó
glottocode tiri1258
hasAlternativeName Tiriyó
Tiriyó (Tarëno)
linked to: Tiriyó-Tarëno
hasApproximateSpeakers a few thousand speakers
hasConsonantInventory moderate-sized consonant inventory
hasDialect Kaxuyana-Tunayana
linked to: Kaxuyana

Tiriyó (proper)
hasMorphologicalFeature person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasal harmony
hasStressPattern primarily penultimate stress
hasVowelInventory small vowel inventory
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant
isMinorityLanguageIn Brazil
Suriname
iso6393Code tri
languageBranch Tiriyoan
languageFamily Cariban
linguisticTypology agglutinative
macroRegion Amazon basin
linked to: Amazon Basin
neighboringLanguages Akuriyó
Kaxuyana
Wayana
linked to: Wayana people
region northern Brazil
southern Suriname
spokenBy Tiriyó people
spokenIn Brazil
Suriname
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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