Akurio language

Akuriyó
Native to Suriname
Ethnicity 50 Akurio people (no date)[1]
Native speakers
 10  (2002)[1]
Cariban

  • Guianan Carib

    • Taranoan
      • Tiriyo
        • Akuriyó
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ako
Glottolog akur1238[2]

Akuriyó is a nearly extinct Cariban language of Suriname. Contact with the Akurio people was made by non-natives in 1969.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Akuriyó at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Akurio". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.