Aruá language (Rondônia)
| Aruá | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Rondônia, Mato Grosso |
| Ethnicity | 121 Aruá (2020)[1] |
Native speakers | 5 (2014)[2] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | arx |
| Glottolog | arua1261 |
| ELP | Aruá |
Aruáshi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Aruá is a nearly extinct Tupian language of the states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso, in the Amazon region of Brazil. There were 121 Aruá in 2020 and 5 people who speak Aruá as a maternal language.
Linguistic features
- Consonants: Aruá exhibits a typical Tupian consonant inventory, including stops (/p/, /t/, /k/), nasals (/m/, /n/), and glides (/w/, /j/)
- Vowels: A five-vowel system (/a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/) with nasalization contrasts.
- Morphology: Agglutinative structure with extensive verb serialization. Example: kõjã-pit ("to walk-while-talking").
- Syntax: Subject–Object–Verb (SOV) word order, common in Tupian languages.[3]
References
- ^ "Aruá - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
- ^ Moore, Denny; Meyer, Julien (December 2014). The Study of tone and related phenomena in an Amazonian tone language: Gavião of Rondônia. University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-9856211-2-4.
- ^ Fabre, Alain (2005). "Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos. TUPI" (PDF). University of Helsinki, Ling.fi. Retrieved 2025-06-02.