Arutani language

Arutani
Uruak, Awake
Spoken in	Brazil, Venezuela
Region	Roraima (Brazil); Karum River area, Bolivar State (Venezuela)
Ethnicity	Auaké
Native speakers	42  (1986–2001)
Language family	Arutani–Sape ? Arutani
Language codes
ISO 639-3	atx

Arutani (Orotani, Urutani, also known as Awake, Auake, Auaqué, Aoaqui, Oewaku, ethnonym Uruak) is a nearly extinct language spoken by only 17 individuals in Roraima, Brazil and two others in the Karum River area of Bolivar State, Venezuela. It is one of the most poorly attested extant languages in South America, and may be a language isolate.^[1] Ethnic Arutani also speak Ninam.

References

1. ^ Harald Hammarström, 2010, 'The status of the least documented language families in the world'. In Language Documentation & Conservation, v 4, p 183 [1]

External links

• Alain Fabre, 2005. Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: AWAKE