Aruá language (Rondônia)

Aruá
Native toBrazil
RegionRondônia, Mato Grosso
Ethnicity121 Aruá (2020)
Native speakers
5 (2014)
Dialects
  • Aruáshi
Language codes
ISO 639-3arx
Glottologarua1261
ELPAruá
Linguasphere88-EAB-aa
Aruáshi is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
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Aruá is a nearly extinct Tupian language of the states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso, in the Amazon region of Brazil. There were 121 Aruá in 2020 and 5 people who speak Aruá as a maternal language.

Linguistic features

References

  1. ↑ "Aruá - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2025-08-27.
  2. ↑ Moore, Denny; Meyer, Julien (December 2014). The Study of tone and related phenomena in an Amazonian tone language: Gavião of Rondônia. University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0-9856211-2-4.
  3. ↑ Fabre, Alain (2005). "Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos. TUPI" (PDF). University of Helsinki, Ling.fi. Retrieved 2025-06-02.