Apiacá language

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Apiacá
Spoken in: Brazil 
Region: northern Mato Grosso, upper Rio Tapajos
Total speakers: 2 (1986 Rodrigues)
Language family: American
 Tupi
  Tupi-Guaraní
   Subgroup VI
    Apiacá
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: api

Apiacá is a Tupi language that in 1986 was spoken by only two of the 90 individuals in the ethnic Apiacá group in the upper Rio Tapajos area of Matto Grosso, Brazil. It is being supplanted by Portuguese and is considered an endangered language.

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