Arikem

E596806

Arikem is a primary subgroup of the Tupian language family, comprising several indigenous languages once spoken in the Amazon region of Brazil.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Arikem canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language family subgroup ⓘ
primary subgroup of the Tupian language family ⓘ
classificationStatus well-established subgroup of Tupian ⓘ
country Brazil ⓘ
documentationLanguage English (in comparative studies) ⓘ
Portuguese (for most descriptions) ⓘ
documentationStatus poorly documented subgroup ⓘ
endangermentCause language shift to Portuguese ⓘ
ethnolinguisticArea western Amazonia ⓘ
fieldOfStudy Amazonian linguistics ⓘ
historical linguistics ⓘ
geographicDistribution Madeira River basin ⓘ
linked to: Madeira River

Rondônia ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Arikém branch ⓘ
Arikéman ⓘ
linked to: Akeanon
hasEndangeredLanguages true ⓘ
hasISO6393Code none (subgroup, not individual language) ⓘ
hasMemberLanguage Arikém (language) ⓘ
linked to: Arikém languages

Kabixiana ⓘ
Karitiána ⓘ
hasMorphosyntacticFeature complex verb morphology ⓘ
person marking on verbs ⓘ
hasNotableLanguage Karitiána ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory (reconstructed tendency) ⓘ
historicalStatus languages once spoken in the Amazon region of Brazil ⓘ
languageFamily Tupian ⓘ
linguisticArea Amazonian linguistic area ⓘ
locatedIn Amazon rainforest ⓘ
northern Brazil ⓘ
partOf Tupian language phylum ⓘ
reconstructionStatus partially reconstructed from surviving data ⓘ
region Amazon region ⓘ
relatedTo Mundurukú branch of Tupian ⓘ
Tupí-Guaraní branch of Tupian ⓘ
linked to: Tupi–Guaraní
spokenBy Arikém peoples (historically) ⓘ
Karitiána people ⓘ
linked to: Parintintín people
spokenInThePastBy indigenous peoples of Brazil ⓘ
status largely extinct subgroup ⓘ
subclassOf Tupian languages ⓘ
indigenous languages of South America ⓘ
timeDepth pre-Columbian origin ⓘ
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology ⓘ
predominantly suffixing ⓘ
usedIn ritual practices (historically) ⓘ
traditional oral culture ⓘ
wordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb) tendency ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tupian → majorBranch → Arikem ⓘ