Arutani is an Arutani-Sape language spoken by only 17 individuals in Roraima, Brazil and two others in the Karum River area of Bolivar State, Venezuela. Speakers of Arutani also speak Ninam. Arutani is near extinction. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... The Arutani-Sape are an endangered language family that includes two languages which are mainly spoken in Brazil and Venezuela. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Arutani-Sape are an endangered language family that includes two languages which are mainly spoken in Brazil and Venezuela. ... Flag of Roraima See other Brazilian States Capital Boa Vista Largest City Boa Vista Area 225,116. ... In Spanish: Estado Bolívar, is one of the 23 states (estados) into which Venezuela is divided. ...

External links

• Arutani language at Ethnologue