Paresi language

Paresi, also called Haliti-Paresi or Pareci, is an Arawakan language of the Paresi-Xingu branch spoken in nine indigenous territories of Mato Grosso, Brazil, including Rio Formoso, Utiariti and Estacao Parecis. About 1,800 of the roughly 2,100 Paresi people, some 90 percent, still spoke the language as of 2014, though UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger classifies it as Definitely Endangered because schooling and healthcare conducted in Portuguese are steadily narrowing its transmission to younger generations.