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Basic Data
- Name: Apalai
- Alternative Names: Aparai, Apalay
- Language Classification: Carib
- Population: 450 (1993 SIL)
- Pará, mainly on the Paru Leste River with fringe groups on the Jari and Citare rivers. 20 villages
Publications
Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1973, Sistemas Contrastivos de Marcadores de Pessoa em Duas Línguas Carib: Apalaí e Hixkaryána (in Portuguese, 24 kB), Série Linguística Nº 1:57-62.
Koehn, Edward Henry, 2009 (1965), Bound Person Markers of the Apalaí Verb Phrase (204 kB), Associação Internacional de Linguística, Anápolis, GO.
———, 2009 (1966), The Apalaí Phrase (200 kB), Associação Internacional de Linguística, Anápolis, GO.
Koehn, Edward and Sally, 1971, Fonologia da Língua Apalaí (in Portuguese, 41 kB), Estudos sobre Línguas e Culturas Indígenas: 17-28.
Koehn, Edward Henry and Sally Sharp Koehn, 1995, Vocabulário Básico, Apalaí-Português, Dicionário da Língua Apalaí (in Portuguese, 666 kB), Sociedade Internacional de Linguística, Brasília, DF.
Koehn, Sally Sharp, 2009 (1966), Apalaí Verb Structure (162 kB), Associação Internacional de Linguística, Anápolis, GO.