Akurio language

Akuriyó
Native to	Suriname
Ethnicity	50 Akurio people (no date)^[1]
Native speakers	10 (2002)^[1]
Language family	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 2 Akuriyó at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Akurio". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Languages of Suriname
Official language	Dutch
Regional languages	Aukan Caribbean Hindustani Javanese Chinese Kwinti Saramaccan Sranan Tongo
Indigenous languages	Akurio Arawak Carib Mawayana Sikiana Trió Waiwai Warao Wayana

Parukotoan

Pekodian

Venezuelan Carib

Pemóng–Panare	Kapóng Makushi Panare Pemón
Mapoyo–Tamanaku	Kumaná Mapoyo-Yawarana Tamanaku

Guianan Carib

Taranoan	Akuriyo Karihona Tiriyo

Unclassified

Italics indicate extinct languages

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