Zuruahá language
Zuruahá (also called Suruaha, Suruwaha, Zuruaha, Índios do Coxodoá [3]) is an Arawan language spoken in Brazil by about 130 people.
| Zuruahá | |
|---|---|
| Suruahá | |
| Native to | Perú, Brazil |
| Ethnicity | 140 Zuruahã people (2006)[1] |
Native speakers | 140 (2006)[1] monolingual[1] |
Arawan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | swx |
| Glottolog | suru1263[2] |
Zuruahá is mentioned in Kaufman (1994) from personal communication from Dan Everett. He made first contact with the community (a 3-day hike from Dení territory in Amazonas state) in 1980. The language had not been studied as of 1994, but seems most similar to Deni.
References
- Zuruahá at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Suruaha". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Zuruahã
External links
- "Suruahá" in the South American Phonological Inventory Database
- "Hakani," information about a popular hoax film about the Zuruahã, Survival International
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