Surui language

Suruí
	Paíter
Native to	Brazil
Ethnicity	Paiter
Native speakers	1,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Tupian Monde Suruí; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sru
Glottolog	suru1262[2]

Suruí (of Jiparaná), also known as Paíter or Suruí-Paíter, is a Tupian language of Brazil. The Suruí of Rondônia call themselves Paiter, which means “the true people, we ourselves". They speak a language of the Tupi group and Monde language family. There were 1,171 Suruí-Paíter in 2010.

References

↑ Suruí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Suruí". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

ELAR archive of Documentation of Gavião and Suruí Languages in whistled and instrumental speech

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[e18-1] Suruí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Suruí". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.