Tiriyó-Tarëno

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Tiriyó-Tarëno is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Tiriyó people in parts of Brazil and Suriname.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Tiriyó (Tarëno) 1
Tiriyó-Tarëno canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (27)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
Cariban language
indigenous language
alternativeName Tarëno
Tiriyó
continent South America
country Brazil
Suriname
ethnicGroupAssociated Tiriyó
geneticClassification Tiriyoan branch of Cariban
hasDialect Tarëno dialect
Tiriyó dialect
languageFamily Cariban
linked to: Carib
languageFamilyHigher Cariban language family
linked to: Carib languages
languageStatus endangered language
minority language
region northern Amazon
northern Brazil
southern Suriname
spokenBy Tiriyó people
spokenIn Brazil
Suriname
typologicalFeature SOV basic word order
agglutinative morphology
usedFor daily communication within Tiriyó communities
oral tradition
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.

Tiriyó language hasAlternativeName Tiriyó-Tarëno
Tarëno hasAlternativeName Tiriyó (Tarëno)
linked to: Tiriyó-Tarëno