Terena language

E168156

The Terena language is an Arawakan indigenous language spoken primarily by the Terena people of Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul region.

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Label Occurrences
Terena language canonical 2

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
South American language
indigenous language
continent South America
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Terena people
family Arawakan languages
surface form: Arawakan language family
hasAlternativeName Cachoeirinha
Etelena
Tereno
Terêna
Xanéu
surface form: Xaneu

Xanéu
hasDialects Guana
Kinikinao
Terena proper
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasal vowels
languageCodeISO639-3 ter
languageFamilyBranch Maipurean
languageFamilyHigher Arawakan languages
surface form: Arawakan
primaryCountryOfUse Brazil
spokenInCountry Brazil
spokenInRegion Mato Grosso do Sul
subfamily Upper Orinoco Arawakan
surface form: Southern Arawakan
typologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
predominantly SOV word order
usedBy Terena communities in Mato Grosso do Sul
usedIn local community education in Terena villages
oral storytelling of Terena people
traditional Terena cultural practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Arawakan languages hasLanguage Terena language
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