Akurio, also known as Akuriyó, is an endangered Cariban language that was used by the Akurio people in Suriname until the late 20th century, when the group began using the Trío language. Akuriyo does not have a writing system.
Akuriyó | |
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Native to | Suriname |
Ethnicity | 40 Akurio people (2012)[1] |
Extinct | Last native speaker died between 2002 and 2012. As of 2018, only 1 known semi-speaker remains.[2] |
Language family | Cariban
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ako |
Glottolog | akur1238 |
ELP | Akuriyo |
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.[3]
Languages of Suriname | |
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Indigenous languages |
Cariban languages | |||||
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Venezuelan Carib |
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Guianan Carib |
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Unclassified |
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Italics indicate extinct languages |
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