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Where is Kayabí spoken?

Kayabí is a Tupian language, spoken in Brazil. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Kayabí is spoken

Kayabí is spoken in one country: Brazil.

Country
Brazil

On the map, Kayabí is drawn as an area from Queixalos and Renault-Lescure 2000. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18643631), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Kayabí.

How many people speak Kayabí?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Kayabí sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Kayabí as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Tupian
  2. Eastern Tupian
  3. Maweti-Guarani
  4. Aweti-Guarani
  5. Tupi-Guarani
  6. Tupi-Guarani Subgroup VI
  7. Kayabí

More about Kayabí

Codes: ISO 639-3 kyz, Glottolog kaya1329. Glottolog macroarea: South America.

Questions about Kayabí

Where is Kayabí spoken?

Kayabí is spoken in Brazil. On the map it is shown as an area from Queixalos and Renault-Lescure 2000.

Which language family is Kayabí in?

Glottolog places Kayabí in the Tupian family, in the branch Eastern Tupian, Maweti-Guarani, Aweti-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani and Tupi-Guarani Subgroup VI.

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