Apalaí (language)
| Apalaí | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Brazil | |
| speaker | about 450 (1993) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
- |
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| ISO 639-3 |
apy |
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Apalaí is an unclassified Caribbean language in Brazil . It is agglutinating and has about 450 speakers (as of 1993). Only Apalaí can speak about 100 speakers.
alphabet
The language is written in a 19-letter Latin-based alphabet:
| Capitals | A. | B. | E. | H | I. | J | K | M. | N | O | P | R. | S. | T | U | W. | X | Y | Z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minuscule | a | b | e | H | i | j | k | m | n | O | p | r | s | t | u | w | x | y | z |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Apalaí on www.ethnologue.com .
- ^ Koehn, 1995