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Piaroa language

Piaroa (ISO 639-3 code pid) is a language of the Saliban family spoken in Colombia and Venezuela. It has about 13,773 speakers. The Endangered Languages Project lists it as vulnerable.

Facts

ISO 639-3 codepid
Glottocodepiar1243
FamilySaliban
AreaSouth America
CountriesColombia, Venezuela
Speakers (estimate)13,773
EndangermentVulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Related languages

Other Saliban languages, nearest first.

More about Piaroa

Classification, area and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Endangerment status and speaker estimate: Endangered Languages Project. Speaker numbers are estimates and differ between sources.