Akwáwa language

Akwáwa is a Tupi–Guarani dialect cluster spoken in Pará in western Brazil.

Akwáwa
Native toBrazil
RegionPará
EthnicitySuruí do Pará, Asuriní, Parakanã
Native speakers
(700 (1999)[1]
to 1,500 cited 1995–2006)[2]
Tupian
  • Tupí–Guaraní
    • Tenetehara
      • Akwáwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
asu – Asuriní
mdz – Suruí
pak – Parakanã
Glottologtupi1284[3]

Dialects

There are three distinct dialects:[1]

  • Asuriní (of Tocantins or Trocará), or Akwawa
  • Suruí (of Tocantins or Pará), or Akewara
  • Parakanã, Awaeté

Both the name Asuriní and Suruí are used for related peoples and their languages: Suruí of Jiparaná, Suruí of Rondônia, Asuriní of Xingú, etc.

Notes
  1. Cheryl Jensen, 1999, "Tupí-Guaraní", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, The Amazonian Languages
  2. Asuriní at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Suruí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Parakanã at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tupi-Guarani Subgroup IV.A". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.



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