Surui language
Not to be confused with Suruí do Pará language.
| Suruí | |
|---|---|
| Paíter | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Ethnicity | Paiter |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
sru |
| Glottolog |
suru1262[2] |
Suruí (of Jiparaná), AKA Paíter or Suruí-Paíter, is a Tupian language of Brazil. The Suruí of Rondônia call themselves Paiter, which means “the true people, we ourselves". They speak a language of the Tupi group and Monde language family. There were 1,171 Suruí-Paíter in 2010.
References
- ↑ Suruí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Suruí". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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