Xipaya language

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Xipaya (or Shipaja or Xipaia) is an endangered language spoken in the Pará region of Brazil.

It is one of the approximately 70 Tupian languages of South America. At last count, Xipaya was only spoken by two elderly women in Altamira, Pará.

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Xipaya language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

• ELAR archive of Documentation of Urgently Endangered Tupian Languages (including Xipaya)

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