Ka'apor language

Kaapor
Urubu
Native to Brazil
Region Maranhão
Ethnicity 990 Kaapor (2006)[1]
Native speakers
800 (2006)[1]
Tupian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 urb
Glottolog urub1250[2]

Kaapor (Ka’apor, Kaaporté), also known as "Urubú" or Urubú-Kaapor, is a Tupi–Guarani language spoken in French Guiana and Brazil.

There is a high incidence of congenital deafness among the Kaapor people, most of whom grow up bilingual in Urubu-Kaapor Sign Language, which may be indigenous to them.

References

  1. 1 2 Kaapor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Urubu-Kaapor". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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