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Paumarí

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3: pad

Population	Ethnic population: 870.
Region	Amazonas, Purus River. 3 villages.
Language map	Brazil, reference number 33
Alternate names	Purupurú
Dialects	Paumarm (Pammari), Kurukuru (Curucuru), Uaiai. 3 inherently intelligible dialects.
Classification	Arauan
Language use	Half under 12 years old (1984 SIL). Also use Portuguese.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1995.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	In 1964 there were 96 Paumarí in 1 village. By 1994 they had increased to 700 in several villages. Language and culture now valued due to language development efforts.

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.  

CHAPMAN, Shirley, author. 1976. "Significado e função de margens verbais na língua paumarí."  

CHAPMAN, Shirley, author. 1985. "Problems in Paumarí acculturation."

CHAPMAN, Shirley, author. 1985. "Subordinate clauses in Paumari."  

CHAPMAN, Shirley, author. 1986. "Paumarí interrogatives."  

CHAPMAN, Shirley, author. 1988. "Interrogativos paumarí."  

CHAPMAN, Shirley, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1978. Paumarí Derivational Affixes.  

CHAPMAN, Shirley, author. Available: 2008; Created: 1979. Prominence in Paumarí.  

CHAPMAN, Shirley; DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., authors. 1991. "Paumarí."

CHAPMAN, Shirley; ODMARK, Mary Ann, authors. Available: 2009; Created: 1964. Paumarí Phonemic Statement.  

CHAPMAN, Shirley; ODMARK, Mary Ann, authors. Available: 2009; Created: 1973. Paumarí Morpho-Phonemics.  

CHAPMAN, Shirley; SALZER, Meinke, compilers. 1998. Dicionário bilíngue nas línguas paumarí e portuguesa.  

DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1982. Arawakan (Brazil) morphosyntax.

DERBYSHIRE, Desmond C., author. 1983. Ergativity and transitivity in Paumarí.

GRIMES, Joseph E., editor. 1986. Sentence initial devices.  

GRIMES, Joseph E., editor. 1987. Série lingüística.

HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1991. Review of: Sentence initial devices, by Joseph E. Grimes, editor.

LANDIN, Rachel M.; ODMARK, Mary Ann, authors. 1985. "On Paumarí social organization."

ODMARK, Mary Ann, author. 1977. "Dois conetivos contrastantes da língua paumarí."  

ODMARK, Mary Ann, author. 1987. "A sobreposição e outras técnicas de repetição em paumarí."  

PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1992. Review of: Handbook of Amazonian languages, vol 3, Desmond C. Derbyshire and Geoffrey K. Pullum, editors.

Vernacular Publications

Curso bilíngue português/paumarí manual 1 [primeira na série de 5] [Teacher's Guide]. 1996.