@article{698224,
  author     = {Wesley Nascimento dos Santos},
  journal    = {Language Documentation and Description},
  number     = {1},
  title      = {Kawahíva (Brazil) – Language Snapshot},
  url        = {https://doi.org/10.25894/ldd.2549},
  volume     = {24},
  year       = {2024},
  abstract   = {Kawahíva is a Tupí-Guaraní language of Western Brazil spoken by about 560 people from eight Indigenous communities. It has been suggested that the communities are the remnants of an ancestral group that lived closer to the Mundukuru in Northern Brazil. Language transmission is still ongoing in one single community, Tenharin Marmelos, but elsewhere, children are no longer acquiring Kawahíva as their first language and are instead becoming, at best, passive bilinguals. The author’s efforts to document and safeguard the language are focused on two particular dialects, Juma and Jupaú.},
  doi        = {10.25894/ldd.2549},
  hhtype     = {overview},
  inlg       = {English [eng]},
  issn       = {2756-1224},
  lgcode     = {[amun1246]},
  macro_area = {South America},
  src        = {elpub},
  subject    = {Tupí-Guaraní; Kawahíva; Amazon; Language endangerment; Tupí-Guaraní; Kawahíva; Amazônia; Línguas em perigo}
}