Kuruaya language

{{Short description|Moribund Tupian language of Brazil}}

{{Expand Portuguese|Língua curuaia|date=July 2021}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Kuruáya

| nativename =

| region = Brazil

| ethnicity = 130 Kuruaya (2006){{Ethnologue25|kyr}}

| ref =

| familycolor = tupian

| fam1 = Tupian

| fam2 = Munduruku

| iso3 = kyr

| glotto = kuru1309

| glottorefname = Kuruáya

| speakers = 1

| date = 2020

| speakers2 =

}}

Kuruáya is a nearly extinct Tupian language of the state of Pará, in the Amazon region of Brazil. There is only one fluent speaker of Kuruáya, Odete Iawa, who is in her eighties or nineties or older. She was alive as of August 2020.{{Cite web |title=Iawa: The Unfinished Kuruaya Symphony |url=https://terralingua.org/langscape_articles/iawa-the-unfinished-kuruaya-symphony/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=Terralingua |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The profound silence of the Kuruaya: Extractivism accelerates cultural extinction in Brazil |url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/kuruaya-extractivism-cultural-extinction-brazil/ |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=openDemocracy |language=en}}