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Tupari languages

The Tuparí languages of Brazil form a branch of the Tupian language family.

The Tupari languages are:

None are spoken by more than a few hundred people.

A more recent internal classification by Nikulin & Andrade (2020) is given below:

Below is a list of Tupari language varieties listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.

Proto-Tuparí reconstructions by Moore and Vilacy Galucio (1994):

In all Tuparian languages, the main clauses follow the cross-linguistically rare nominative–absolutive pattern. Person prefixes on the verb are absolutive, i.e., they index the sole argument of an intransitive verb (S) and the patient argument ('direct object') of a transitive verb (P). Person pronouns, which follow the verb (either cliticizing to it or not) are nominative: they may encode the sole argument of an intransitive verb (S) or the agent argument of a transitive verb (A), but not the patient of a transitive verb (P). The example below is from Wayoró.

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