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Mundurukú

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3: myu

Population	10,100 (2002 FUNASA).
Region	Pará, Amazonas, middle and upper Tapajós and middle Madeira rivers. 22 villages.
Language map	Brazil, reference number 68
Alternate names	Caras-Pretas, Monjoroku, Mundurucu, Paiquize, Pari, Weidyenye
Classification	Tupi, Munduruku
Language use	Vigorous. Most women and all children monolingual. Grasslands villages quite monolingual. Those in Jacareacanga also use Portuguese [por]. Men, more than women, in Sai Cinza and those on the Roman Catholic mission on the Cururu occasionally use Portuguese. In many villages along the Cururu many men know trading vocabulary, many women know daily greetings.
Language development	Grammar. NT: 1980.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Population formerly decimated by outsiders’ diseases and malaria, is presently growing. OV. Traders: Brazil nuts, crude rubber, some gold, pelts. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BRAUN, Ilse; CROFTS, Marjorie, authors. 1965. "Mundurukú phonology."

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1967. "Notas sôbre dois dialetos do mundurukú."

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1971. "Repeated morphs in Mundurukú."  

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1974. A plea to do discourse analysis now.

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1976. "Must tone always be written in a tonal language?."

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1976. To abridge or not?.

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1981. "Um comentário sobre os verbos cognitivos e emotivos mundurukú."

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1984. "Ideófonos na narração mundurukú."  

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1985. Aspectos da língua mundurukú.

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1987. "Os proverbos e pronomes em Mundurukú."

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1987. Some considerations in translating ‘body’ in 1 Corinthians.

CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 2004. Aspectos da língua Munduruku.  

CROFTS, Marjorie, author; DANIEL, Mary L., translator. 1973. Gramática mundurukú.  

DOOLEY, Robert A., editor. 1984. Estudos sobre línguas tupí do Brasil.

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

LARAIA, Roque de Barros, author. 1971. "A estrutura do parentesco tupí."  

SHEFFLER, E. Margaret, author. 1968. Literacy and social problems.

SHEFFLER, E. Margaret, author. 1975. "Folk society and cultural change on the Mundurukú savannah."

SHEFFLER, E. Margaret, author. 1978. "Mundurukú discourse."  

SHEFFLER, E. Margaret, author. Available: 2003; Created: 1974-04-16. Hortatory discourse minimums in Munduruku.