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Akurio language
Cariban language of Suriname

Akurio, also known as Akuriyó, is an endangered Cariban language. It was used by the Akurio people in Suriname until the late 20th century. The group then began using the Trío language. Akuriyo does not have a writing system.

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Status

The last native speaker is believed to have died in the first decade of the 2000s. During this period, only 10 people were estimated to have Akuriyó as a second language. By 2012, only two semi-speakers remained.1

Sepi Akuriyó, one of the last surviving speakers of Akuriyó, went missing 2 December 2018, when a small plane carrying 8 people disappeared during a flight over the Amazon rainforest. The search and rescue operation was called off after two weeks.2

Phonology

Akurio consonants3
BilabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosiveptkʔ
Approximantt̠ʃ
Nasalmn
Tap or Flapɾ
Approximantjw
Akurio vowels4
FrontCentralBack
Closei iːu uː
Close-mide eːo oː
Central
Opena aː

References

  1. Akuriyó at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) https://www.ethnologue.com/25/language/ako ↩

  2. "A scandal in the Amazon - where pilots are forced to lie". BBC News. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47585703 ↩

  3. Meira, Sérgio (1998). A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Morphology (PDF) (masters thesis). Rice University. https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/tese%3Ameira-1998/meira_1998_proto-taranoan.PDF ↩

  4. Meira, Sérgio (1998). A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Morphology (PDF) (masters thesis). Rice University. https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/tese%3Ameira-1998/meira_1998_proto-taranoan.PDF ↩