Kuruáya is a nearly extinct
Tupian language of the state of
Pará
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, in the Amazon region of
Brazil
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. There is only one fluent speaker of Kuruáya,
Odete Iawa, who is in her eighties or nineties or older. She was alive as of August 2020.
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Tupian languages
Endangered Tupian languages
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