Tarëno

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Tarëno is an alternative name for the Tiriyó language, a Cariban language spoken by the Tiriyó people in parts of Brazil and Suriname.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Tarëno canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cariban language ⓘ
language ⓘ
alternativeNameOf Tiriyó language ⓘ
belongsTo indigenous languages of Brazil ⓘ
indigenous languages of Suriname ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Brazil ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ
endangeredStatus vulnerable ⓘ
ethnicGroup Tiriyó ⓘ
glottocode tiri1258 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Tiriyó ⓘ
Tiriyó (Tarëno) ⓘ
linked to: Tiriyó-Tarëno
hasApproximateSpeakers a few thousand speakers ⓘ
hasConsonantInventory moderate-sized consonant inventory ⓘ
hasDialect Kaxuyana-Tunayana ⓘ
linked to: Kaxuyana

Tiriyó (proper) ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature person marking on verbs ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
nasal harmony ⓘ
hasStressPattern primarily penultimate stress ⓘ
hasVowelInventory small vowel inventory ⓘ
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant ⓘ
isMinorityLanguageIn Brazil ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ
iso6393Code tri ⓘ
languageBranch Tiriyoan ⓘ
languageFamily Cariban ⓘ
linguisticTypology agglutinative ⓘ
macroRegion Amazon basin ⓘ
linked to: Amazon Basin
neighboringLanguages Akuriyó ⓘ
Kaxuyana ⓘ
Wayana ⓘ
linked to: Wayana people
region northern Brazil ⓘ
southern Suriname ⓘ
spokenBy Tiriyó people ⓘ
spokenIn Brazil ⓘ
Suriname ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

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