Mundurukú
PrintA language of Brazil
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Caras-Pretas, Monjoroku, Mundurucu, Paiquize, Pari, Weidyenye
Population
7500 (Moore 2006). Ethnic population: 10,100 (2002 FUNASA).
Location
Pará, Amazonas, middle and upper Tapajós and middle Madeira rivers. 22 villages.
Language Maps
Language Status
6b (Threatened).
Classification
Typology
SOV
Language Use
Vigorous. Grasslands villages quite monolingual. Those in Jacareacanga have high proficiency in Portuguese [por], men more than women. In many villages along Cururu river, men know trading vocabulary, women know daily greetings.
Language Development
Grammar. NT: 1980.
Language Resources
Writing
Latin script.
Population formerly decimated by outsiders’ diseases and malaria, is presently growing. Traditional religion, Christian.