Surui language

Not to be confused with Suruí do Pará language.
Suruí
Paíter
Native to Brazil
Ethnicity Paiter
Native speakers
 1,000 (2006)[1]
Tupian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sru
Glottolog suru1262[2]

Suruí (of Jiparaná), AKA Paíter or Suruí-Paíter, is a Tupian language of Brazil. The Suruí of Rondônia call themselves Paiter, which means “the true people, we ourselves". They speak a language of the Tupi group and Monde language family. There were 1,171 Suruí-Paíter in 2010.

References

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


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