Cavineña language

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The Cavineña language is an indigenous Tacanan language spoken by the Cavineña people of northern Bolivia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tacanan language
indigenous language
language
belongsToLanguageGroup Amazonian languages NERFINISHED
indigenous languages of Bolivia
continent South America
country Bolivia
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Cavineña people NERFINISHED
geneticRelation related to Araona language
related to Ese Ejja language
related to Reyesano language
related to Tacana language
hasAcademicStudy described in grammars and dictionaries
hasClauseStructure clause-chaining constructions
hasGlottocode cavi1250
hasGlottologName Cavinena NERFINISHED
hasLanguagePolicyContext minority language in Bolivia
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Spanish
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative morphology
ergative–absolutive alignment
hasMorphosyntacticFeature case marking on noun phrases
complex system of enclitics
rich verbal morphology
hasNotablePublication A Grammar of Cavineña NERFINISHED
hasNotableResearcher Antoine Guillaume NERFINISHED
hasNumberOfSpeakers several hundred speakers
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
small phoneme inventory
hasPreservationEffort documented by linguists for revitalization
hasPronounSystem person and number distinctions
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Spanish is common among speakers
hasWordOrder flexible word order
isMinorityLanguageIn Bolivia NERFINISHED
ISO639-3 cav
languageFamily Tacanan languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus endangered language
name Cavineña NERFINISHED
region Amazonian lowlands of Bolivia NERFINISHED
spokenBy Cavineña people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Bolivia NERFINISHED
northern Bolivia
usedIn daily communication within Cavineña communities
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Pando Department hasMinorityLanguage Cavineña language