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Pirahã

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3: myp

Population	360 (2000 ISA). Ethnic population: 1,500 (1995 SIL). Pirahã small group, Múra larger.
Region	Amazonas, along Maici and Autaces rivers.
Language map	Brazil, reference number 29
Alternate names	Múra-Pirahã
Dialects	Múra.
Classification	Mura
Language use	Vigorous. Most are monolingual. The Múra have mostly shifted to Portuguese [por].
Language development	Grammar. Bible portions: 1987.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	In 1960s the population dwindled to 80 due to high infant mortality, death of mothers giving birth, and disease. Modern medicine helped population growth. Whistle speech. SOV. Hunter-gatherers.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

CAHILL, Michael, author. 2000. From endangered to less endangered: case studies from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.

CAHILL, Michael, author. 2004. From endangered to less endangered: case histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea.  

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1981. "Acentuação, tom e silabificação no pirahã."

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1982. "Phonetic rarities in Pirahã."

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1983. A língua pirahã e a teoria da sintaxe: Descrição, perspectivas e teoria.

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1984. Clitic doubling and M-chains in Pirahã.

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1985. "Dialogue and the selection of data for a grammar."

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1985. "Syllable weight, sloppy phonemes, and channels in Pirahã discourse."

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1986. "O diálogo e a seleção de dados para uma gramática."

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1986. "Pirahã."

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1986. Ternarity and obligatory branching in Pirahã.

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1988. "On metrical constituent structure in Pirahá phonology."

EVERETT, Daniel L., author. 1991. A língua pirahã e a teoria da sintaxe: Descrição, perspectivas e teoria.

FORTUNE, Gretchen, author. 1988. "Indigenous literatures: Oral and written literature and the influence of language borrowing in relation to male and female speech differences."

HEINRICHS, Arlo, author. 1964. "Os fonemas do Mura-Pirahã."

HEINRICHS, Arlo, author. 1967. "Notas preliminares sôbre núcleos oracionais contrastivos em mura-pirahã."

SHELDON, Steven N., author. 1974. "Some morphophonemic and tone perturbation rules in Mura-Pirahã."

SHELDON, Steven N., author. 1988. "Os sufixos verbais múra-piraha."