Apiaká language

Not to be confused with Apiaká of Tocantins.
Apiaká
Native toBrazil
Regionnorthern Mato Grosso, upper Rio Tapajos
Ethnicity1,000 Apiacá
Extinct10 April 2011, with the death of Pedrinho Kamassuri
3 rememberers (2016)
Dialects
  • Apiaka proper (†)
  • Wirafed †
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
api – Apiacá
wir – Wiraféd
Glottologapia1248  Apiaká
wira1264  Wiraféd
ELPApiaká
Apiaká is classified as Critically Endangered according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Apiaká is a recently extinct Tupi language of the Apiacá people of the upper Rio Tapajos area of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It has been supplanted by Portuguese, and only 3 people have some knowledge of the language.

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