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Also Known As: Tirió,Trió,Tiriyó Description: The Tiriy...
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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Tirió,Trió,Tiriyó

<b>Description:</b>

The Tiriyó language is spoken by the Tiriyó (also known as Trio, autodenomination tarëno), approximately 2,000 people living in several villages on both sides of the Brazil-Suriname border in Northern Amazonia. It is a relatively healthy language, learned by all children as their mother tongue and actively used in all areas of life by its speakers. Most of the Tiriyó (there are no precise numbers, but impressionistic observation would suggest more than half) are monolingual speakers. Of course, the long-term survival of their language, as is the case for almost all native South American languages, remains an open question.
Tiriyó has been classified as belonging to the Taranoan group of the Guianan sub-branch of Cariban, together with Karihona (Carijona), in Colombia, and Akuriyó, in Suriname, the former with a few, and the latter with apparently no, speakers left.
There seem to be two main dialects in the Tiriyó-speaking area, called by Jones (1972) Eastern or Tapanahoni basin, and Western or Sipaliwini basin dialects, and by Meira (2000, to appear) K-Tiriyó and H-Tiriyó. The main difference thus far reported is phonological: the different realization of what were (historically)<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=8104920 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Trió Language Speakers</h2>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/suriname Suriname]</td></tr>

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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/americas Americas]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>tri</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Carib Group]]

    [[Northern Carib Group]]

      [[East-West Guiana Group]]

        [[Wayana-Trio Group]]

          <b>[[Trió Language]]</b>

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