Torá language
Chapacuran language spoken in Brazil
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Torá (Toraz) is an extinct Chapacuran language that was once spoken along the lower stretches of the Marmelos River in Brazil. It is known only from a wordlist recorded by Curt Nimuendajú and published in 1925.[3] The last fluent speaker is believed to died in the 2000s. In 2006, there were two fluent speakers left, but it only has semi-speakers as of 2018, "at least few".[2]
| Torá | |
|---|---|
| Toraz | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Dos Marmelos River |
| Ethnicity | 330 (2014)[1] |
| Extinct | early 2000s[2] "few" semispeakers (2018)[2] |
Chapacuran
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | trz |
| Glottolog | tora1263 |
| ELP | Torá |
 Torá is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
