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)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Akurio". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of Suriname

Official language	Dutch

Regional languages	Aukan Caribbean Hindustani Javanese Kwinti Saramaccan Sranan Tongo

Indigenous languages	Akurio Arawak Carib Mawayana Sikiana Trió Waiwai Warao Wayana

Cariban languages

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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