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Suruí

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3: sru

Population	920 (2003 ISA).
Region	Rondônia-Mato Grosso border. 10 villages and scattered locations.
Language map	Brazil, reference number 139
Alternate names	Paiter, Suruí de Rondônia, Suruí do Jiparaná
Dialects	Related to Cinta Larga [cin], Gavião do Jiparaná [gvo].
Classification	Tupi, Monde
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. Bible portions: 1991.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SOV. Agriculturalists: coffee.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ANONBY, Stan, author. 2012. "A Historical Comparative Look at Four Mondé Languages."  

BONTKES, Carolyn, author. 1985. "Subordinate clauses in Suruí."  

BONTKES, Carolyn, author. 1988. "A prosódia silábica suruí."

BONTKES, Carolyn, author. 2007. A prosódia silábica surui.  

BONTKES, Carolyn, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1974. Tentative Observations of Morphophonemic Changes in the Verbs and the Possessed Nouns of Suruí.  

BONTKES, Carolyn; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1985. "On Surui (Tupian) social organization."

BONTKES, Carolyn; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 2008. "On Surui social organization."

BONTKES, Willem, author. 1988. "As orações suruí."

BONTKES, Willem; DOOLEY, Robert A., authors. 1985. "Verification particles in Suruí."  

MEER, Tine H. van der, author. 1982. Fonologia da língua Suruí.

MEER, Tine H. van der, author. 1983. "Ideofones e palavras onomatopaicas em suruí."

MEER, Tine H. van der, author. 1985. "Case marking in Suruí."