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Zuruahá language

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Native to
  
Perú, Brazil

Language family
  
Arawan Zuruahá

Glottolog
  
suru1263

Native speakers
  
140 (2006) monolingual

ISO 639-3
  
swx

Ethnicity
  
140 Zuruahã people (2006)

Zuruahá (also called Suruaha, Suruwaha, Zuruaha, Índios do Coxodoá ) is an Arawan language spoken in Brazil by about 130 people.

Zuruahá is mentioned in Kaufman (1994) from personal communication from Dan Everett. First contact with the community (a 3-day hike from Dení territory in Amazonas) was made in 1980. The language had not been studied as of 1994, but seems most similar to Deni.

References

Zuruahá language Wikipedia