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Emerillon language

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Region
  
French Guiana

Native speakers
  
400 (2001)

Glottolog
  
emer1243

Ethnicity
  
Emerillon people

ISO 639-3
  
eme

Language family
  
Tupian Tupi–Guaraní Wayampí Emerillon

Emerillon (alternate names Emerilon, Emerion, Mereo, Melejo, Mereyo, Teco) is a Tupi–Guarani language spoken in French Guiana on the rivers Camopi and Tampok. The Emerillon people refer to their language as Teke and it is mutually intelligible to Wayampi a language indigenous to French Guiana and Brazil.

References

Emerillon language Wikipedia