Kuikuro
Facts
- Language: Kuikuro
- Alternate names: Língua Karib do Alto Xingu, Kuikúro-Kalapálo, Kuikuru, Guicurú, Kurkuro, Cuicutl, Apalakiri, Apalaquiri, Kuikúru, Kalapalo, Calapalu, Amonap, Matipu, Kuikuro, Southern Xingu Language
- Language code: kui, mzo
- Language family:
Cariban; Nahukwa
(SIL classification)
- Number of speakers: 1,106
- Vulnerability: Threatened
- Script:
More information:
Ethnologue (2016) list Matipuhy (a.k.a. Mariape-Nahuqua, Matipu) [mzo] and Kuikúro-Kalapálo (Kuikuru, Guicurú, Kurkuro, Cuicutl, Kalapalo, Apalakiri, Apalaquiri) [kui] as separate languages. Kaufman (2007) has Amonap (Kuikuro, Kalapalo, Matipú, Nahukuá), a member of his Bakairí group of his South Amazonian Cariban subgroup of Cariban.