You can helpexpand this article with text translated fromthe corresponding article in Portuguese. (October 2020)Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Portuguese article. Machine translation, likeDeepL orGoogle Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consideradding a topic to this template: there are already 538 articles in themain category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Youmust providecopyright attribution in theedit summary accompanying your translation by providing aninterlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary isContent in this edit is translated from the existing Portuguese Wikipedia article at [[:pt:Língua palikur]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template{{Translated|pt|Língua palikur}} to thetalk page. For more guidance, seeWikipedia:Translation.

Palikúr (Brazilian Portuguese:Palicur,French:Palikur) is anArawakan language ofBrazil andFrench Guiana, spoken by thePalikur and formerly theKaripuna do Amapá.^[2] Knowledge ofFrench andPortuguese is common among the Palikur, andFrench Guianese Creole is used as the common language among the tribes in the area and with the local population. Palikúr is considered endangered in French Guiana and vulnerable in Brazil.^[3][4]

• Plosives in word-final position are heard unreleased as [p̚, t̚, k̚, b̚, d̚, ɡ̚].
• /p/ can be heard as[v] or[β] when before close vowels /i, u/, or within intervocalic positions.
• /t, d, n/ when before front vowels /i, ĩ/ are heard as palatal and post-alveolar sounds [tʃ, dʒ, ɲ].

• /e, o/ are heard as [ɛ, ɔ] within different positions.
• /a/ is heard as a nasalized central vowel sound [ɐ̃] when preceding a nasal consonant.^[5]

Palikúr has dependent and independentpersonal pronouns.^[6] The verb marks the object by using suffixes, but not the subject, which must appear in the form of anominal group or as an independent pronoun. Thisaffixation of only the object and not of the subject is linguistically very rare: the norm is the affixation for both or for only the subject. The noun complement is marked by a possessive prefix.^[4]

Palikúr has severalloanwords, many of which are wildlife-related, from theCarib language, including:^[6]

• Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012)."Phonological inventory of Palikúr".The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.

ThisArawakan languages-related article is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Arawakan languages
• Languages of Brazil
• Languages of French Guiana
• Arawakan language stubs

• Pages containing links to subscription-only content
• Language articles citing Ethnologue 18
• CS1 French-language sources (fr)
• CS1 Brazilian Portuguese-language sources (pt-br)
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Articles needing translation from Portuguese Wikipedia
• Articles containing Palikúr-language text
• Language articles with old Ethnologue 18 speaker data
• All stub articles