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The Tiriyó language (also known as Trio autonym tarëno) is spoken by approximately 2000 people living in several villages on both sides of the Brazil-Suriname border in Northern Amazonia. It is a relatively healthy language learned by all children as their mother tongue and actively used in all areas of life by its speakers. Most of the Tiriyó (there are no precise numbers but impressionistic observation would suggest more than half[citation needed]) are monolingual speakers.