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Mato Grosso Arára language

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Mato Grosso Arára is an extinct, unclassified language of Brazil, treated by most linguists as a language isolate. It was spoken by a people who call themselves Yugapkata and are also known by regional names including Arára do Mato Grosso, Arára do Rio Branco, and Arára do Aripuana, distinguishing them from unrelated Arára-named peoples elsewhere in Brazil. By 2001 only four elders remembered the language, and by 2008 just two, with no fully fluent speakers remaining; the associated ethnic community numbered about two hundred forty nine people as of 2014.

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