What languages are spoken in rainforests?

Answer 1

There are rainforests in several parts of the world. People speak different languages.

One of the languages people in the Amazon Rainforest Speak is Zapara. But there are more than a thousand other languages
It depends entirely on which rain forest it is, which country, what tribe the people may belong to, and the nationality of the people living there.

Answer 2

This is not as straightforward as it seems, since most of the Amazonian natives have been forcibly moved away from their original homelands and more remote tribes have been moved into the Amazon area. Many tribes have become extinct, many native languages are no longer spoken and the number of mixed-race natives has increased dramatically.

Originally, the native American populations along the Amazon spoke languages belonging to the Tupi-Guarani, Arawak and Carib language families. It is thought that tribes speaking Macro-Gê languages were driven out of the Amazon region into the Brazilian highlands shortly before contact with Europeans.

The most widely distributed of Amazonian language families, Arawakan, includes 74 languages divided into several subgroups including:

• Aruan
• Guahibo
• Harakmbut
• Maipuran

These branches are estimated to have split from their proto-Arawakan parent between 4,500 and 2,500 years ago. Many Arawakan languages are now extinct, but a few survive in the former heartland region of the Amazon-Orinoco. Maipuran, once centred in the western Amazon region, by about 3,000 years ago had spread throughout the Caribbean Antilles.

Answer 3

The Yanomami speak five languages, very similar to each other, sometimes classified as a dialect continuum:

1. Yanam (also known as Ninam, Yanam-Ninam, Jawari)
   
2. Sanumá (also known as Tsanuma, Sanima)
   
3. Yanomámi (also known as Waiká)
   
4. Yanomamö (also known as Yanomame, Yanomami)
   
5. Yaroamë (also known as Jawari)

Note: Sunumá is the most lexically distinct. Yanomamö has the most speakers (20,000), while Yanam and Yaroame have the fewest (400 each).