Bakairí

Facts

  • Language: Bakairí
  • Alternate names: Bakairi, Kura, Bacairí, Kurâ
  • Language code: bkq
  • Language family: Cariban, South Amazonian, Bakairí (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 900
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Two dialects: Eastern Bakairi (in seven villages in the Bakairi Indigenous Reservation (Área Indígena Bakairi); Western Bakairi (in two villages in the Santana Indigenous Reservation Área Indígena Santana) near Nobres.