Apiaká language

Apiaká
Native toBrazil
Regionnorthern Mato Grosso, upper Rio Tapajos
Ethnicity1,000 Apiacá
Extinct10 April 2011, with the death of Pedrinho Kamassuri
unknown partial speakers (2018)
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
api – Apiacá
wir – Wiraféd
Glottologapia1248
ELPApiaká
Apiaká is classified as Critically Endangered according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Apiaká is a recently extinct Tupi language of the Apiacá people of the upper Rio Tapajos area of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It has been supplanted by Portuguese.

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