Pirahã

language native to the Maici River, Amazon
Language language Q33825
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Pirahã

Summary

Pirahã is a language[1]. Pirahã ranks in the top 0.8% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,648 views/month, #45 of 5,611).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pirahã is in the country of Brazil[3].
  • Pirahã's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Pirahã's instance of is recorded as dialect[5].
  • Pirahã's instance of is recorded as modern language[6].
  • Pirahã is a type of Mura[7].
  • Pirahã's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pirahã language[8].
  • Pirahã's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+389'}[9].
  • Pirahã's UNESCO language status is recorded as 2 vulnerable[10].
  • Pirahã's indigenous to is recorded as Pirahã[11].
  • Pirahã's indigenous to is recorded as Amazonas[12].
  • Pirahã's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MYP[13].
  • Pirahã's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 6a Vigorous[14].
  • Pirahã's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[15].
  • Pirahã's linguistic typology is recorded as language isolate[16].
  • Pirahã's dialect of is recorded as Mura[17].
  • Pirahã's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wiki Loves Popular Culture Brazil - Traditions, rituals and oral expressions[18].

Why It Matters

Pirahã ranks in the top 0.8% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,648 views/month, #45 of 5,611).[2] Pirahã has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Pirahã is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . unesco.org. unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of
    Country Brazil
    Dialect of Mura
    Iso 639-2 code sai
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007549281605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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