Arikapú or Maxubí is an
endangered Yabutian language.
Loukotka (1968) lists Arikapú and Maxubí as separate languages. Arikapú is spoken on the
Branco River
The Branco River ( pt, Rio Branco; Engl: ''White River'') is the principal affluent of the Rio Negro from the north.
Basin
The river drains the Guayanan Highlands moist forests ecoregion.
It is enriched by many streams from the Tepui highlands w ...
south of the Tuparí tribe. Maxubí is spoken on the
Mequéns River.
Speakers
In 1998, Arikapú was spoken by only six individuals in
Rondônia
Rondônia () is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northern subdivision of the country (central-western part). To the west is a short border with the state of Acre, to the north is the state of Amazonas, in the east is Mato Grosso, ...
,
Brazil, at the headwaters of the Rio Branco. By 2015, Djeoromitxi (2015)
[Djeoromitxi, A. K. ''O fortalecimento da língua e cultura Djeromitxi a partir da for-mação dos professores''. 2015. 79 f. Monografia (Licenciatura em Educação Básica Intercultu-ral) – Departamento de Educação Intercultural, Universidade Federal de Rondônia (câmpus de Ji-Paraná). 2015.] reported there were only two remaining speakers, namely the two sisters Nazaré Wadjidjika Arikapu and Nambuika Arikapu.
[Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. ]
Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo
'. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília. It is being supplanted by
Portuguese.
Phonology
Nasalisation is indicated by a tilde on the vowel : .
References
External links
Arikapú basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database*
Critically endangered languages
Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area
Yabutian languages
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