Apalaí is a Cariban language spoken in Brazil. Approximately 450 people speak Apalaí. It is an agglutinative language which uses a rare object–verb–subject word order.[2]
| Apalaí | |
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| Native to | Brazil |
| Ethnicity | Aparai people |
Native speakers | (450 cited 1993)[1] |
Language family | Cariban
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | apy |
| Glottolog | apal1257 |
| ELP | Apalaí |
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