Suyá

Facts

Language: Suyá
Alternate names: Suya, Kisêdjê, Suiá
Language code: suy
Language family: Jean, Northern (SIL classification)
Number of speakers: 409
Vulnerability: Endangered
Script: Latin script.

More information:

Yaruma dialect became extinct around 2007. Ethnic autonym for Beiço de Pau: Tapayúna, who no longer live with Suyás; they moved out of Xingú Park to live in Kayapó villages in Terra Indígena Capoto or Jarina reservation in Pará state (2002 ISA).

Suyá and Tapayúna belong to the same language.