Kaapor (Ka’apor, Kaaporté), also known as "Urubú," "Caapor" or Urubú-Kaapor, is a
Tupi–Guarani language spoken as a primary language by the
Ka'apor
The Ka'apor are an indigenous people of Brazil. They live on a protected reserve in the state of Maranhão. They were the subject of a book by anthropologist Dr. William Balée in an exhaustive study of their ethnobotany lifeways and the histo ...
people of
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. The language is also spoken as a second language by non-Ka'apor ethnic groups, including
Tembé.
There is a high incidence of congenital deafness among the
Kaapor people, most of whom grow up bilingual in
Urubu-Kaapor Sign Language, which may be indigenous to them.
References
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Tupi–Guarani languages
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