Kapon

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Kapon is an indigenous language (also known as Akawaio) spoken by the Akawaio people of the Guiana Highlands in northern South America.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kapon canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cariban language
indigenous language
language
alternateName Akawaio NERFINISHED
continent South America
country Brazil
Guyana NERFINISHED
Venezuela
culturalArea Guiana Shield NERFINISHED
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Akawaio people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeSpelling Acawai NERFINISHED
Acawayo NERFINISHED
Akawai
Akawayo NERFINISHED
hasDialects regional varieties in Guyana
regional varieties in Venezuela
hasGlottocode akaw1239 NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code ake
hasNeighboringLanguage Carib language NERFINISHED
Makushi language NERFINISHED
Wapishana language NERFINISHED
isMinorityLanguageIn Brazil NERFINISHED
Guyana NERFINISHED
Venezuela NERFINISHED
languageFamily Cariban NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology SOV word order (tendency)
macroArea South America NERFINISHED
region Cuyuni-Mazaruni region NERFINISHED
Pakaraima Mountains NERFINISHED
relatedTo Ingarikó language NERFINISHED
Patamona language NERFINISHED
spokenBy Akawaio people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Brazil NERFINISHED
Guiana Highlands NERFINISHED
Guyana NERFINISHED
Venezuela NERFINISHED
northern South America
subgroupOf Kapong languages
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.