Apiacá language

Apiacá language

language
name= Apiacá
nativename=
states=Brazil
region=northern Mato Grosso, upper Rio Tapajos
speakers=2 (1986 Rodrigues)
familycolor=American
fam2=Tupi
fam3=Tupi-Guaraní
fam4=Subgroup VI
iso3=api

Apiacá is a Tupi language that in 1986 was spoken by only two of the 90 individuals in the ethnic Apiacá group in the upper Rio Tapajos area of Matto Grosso, Brazil. It is being supplanted by Portuguese and is considered an endangered language.

External links

*ethnologue|code=api


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