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| Xipaya | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Brazil | |
| Total speakers: | 2 | |
| Language family: | Tupi Xipaya |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | xiy | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Xipaya (or Shipaja or Xipaia) is an endangered language spoken in the Pará region of Brazil.
It is one of the approximately 70 Tupian languages of South America.
At last count, Xipaya was only spoken by two elderly women in Altamira, Pará.1
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