Akurio language
| Akuriyó | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Suriname |
| Ethnicity | 40 Akurio people (2012)[1] |
| Extinct | Last native speaker died in the 2000s. As of 2012, 2 semi-speakers remain.[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ako |
| Glottolog | akur1238 |
| ELP | Akuriyo |
Akurio, also known as Akuriyó, is an
Trío language. Akuriyo does not have a writing system
.
Status
The last native speaker is believed to have died in the first decade of the 2000s, at which time only 10 people were estimated to have Akuriyó as a second language. By 2012, only two semi-speakers remained.[1]
Sepi Akuriyó, one of the last surviving speakers of Akuriyó, went missing 2 December 2018, when a small plane carrying 8 people disappeared during a flight over the Amazon rainforest. A search and rescue operation was called off after two weeks.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Akuriyó at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "A scandal in the Amazon - where pilots are forced to lie". BBC News. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
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