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Apalaí

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3: apy

Population	450 (1993 SIL). 100 monolinguals.
Region	Pará, mainly on Paru Leste River with fringe groups on Jari and Citare rivers. 20 villages.
Language map	Brazil, reference number 64
Alternate names	Apalay, Aparai
Classification	Carib, Northern, East-West Guiana, Wayana-Trio
Language use	Most also use Wayana [way].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Literacy rate in L2: 37%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1986.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	OVS, SOV.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1973. "Sistemas contrastivos de marcadores de pessoa em duas línguas carib: Apalaí e hixkaryána."

Gudschinsky, Sarah C., editor. 1971. Estudos sôbre línguas e culturas indígenas: Trabalhos linguísticos realizados no Brasil (edição especial).

Koehn, Edward H. 1976. "The historical tense in Apalaí narrative."

Koehn, Edward H. and Sally S. Koehn, compilers. 1995. Vocabulário básico Apalaí-Português: Dicionário da língua Apalaí.

Koehn, Edward H. and Sally S. Koehn. 1971. "Fonologia da língua apalaí."

Koehn, Edward H. and Sally S. Koehn. 1986. "Apalaí."

Koehn, Sally S. 1975. "Apalaí kinship and social behavior."

Koehn, Sally S. 1987. "Componentes semânticos do sistema apalaí de parentesco."

Koehn, Sally S. 1994. "The use of generic terms in Apalaí genitive constructions."