Yurutí

Facts

  • Language: Yurutí
  • Alternate names: Yuruti, Juruti, Jurutí, Yuruti-Tapuya, Luruty-Tapuya Juriti, Juriti-Tapuia, Wayhara, Patsoka, Wajiaraye, Yuruti, Wajiara, Totsoca, Wadzana, Waikana, Waimasá, Yurutiye
  • Language code: yui
  • Language family: Tucanoan, Eastern Tucanoan, Tucano (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 687
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Marriage patterns require spouses to be from different language groups. Children speak the languages of both parents and grandparents, but identify with the father’s language. Ethnic autonym: Wajiara, fish people. Yuriti and Juriti are incorrect spellings.

    Yurutí is spoken in Brazil, Colombia, South America.