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Name: Palikur

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Palicur; Palikúr; Palikr; Palijur; Palikour

Spoken in: French Guiana, Brazil

Number of speakers: 920 in Brazil (2000 ISA). Population total all countries: 1,420 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 1800 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 1300 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: plu

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Maipurean (Maipuran, Arawakan)

Parent Subgroup: Eastern; Palicuran Group; Eastern Branch; Eastern Maipuran; Eastern Northern Maipurean (emai)

Child Dialects: Palikur (plu-plu) Marawán-Karipurá; Maraon; Marawan; Marawán-Kaipurá (plu-mar)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Severely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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