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Preferred term

triTrió  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Tiriyó language (also known as Trio, autonym tarëno), is spoken by approximately 2,000 people living in several villages on both sides of the Brazil-Suriname border in Northern Amazonia. It is a relatively healthy language, learned by all children as their mother tongue and actively used in all areas of life by its speakers. Most of the Tiriyó (there are no precise numbers, but impressionistic observation would suggest more than half) are monolingual speakers. Of course, the long-term survival of their language, as is the case for almost all native South American languages, remains an open question.

Entry terms

  • Tiriyó language

ISO 639-3 code

  • tri

Notation

  • tri

In other languages

  • Tiriyo

    German

  • Tiriyó

    Italian

  • Portuguese

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tri

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