Sirionó

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Sirionó is an indigenous Tupi–Guaraní language spoken by the Sirionó people of Bolivia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American language
Bolivian language
indigenous language
country Bolivia
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnicityOfSpeakers Sirionó people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Mbia Chee NERFINISHED
Siriono NERFINISHED
Sirionó language
hasCulturalAssociation Sirionó traditional culture
indigenous peoples of the Bolivian lowlands
hasDocumentationStatus partially documented language
hasDomain indigenous knowledge transmission
hasEndangermentCause pressure from dominant Spanish language
hasGrammaticalFeature complex verb morphology
person-number agreement on verbs
use of postpositions
hasLanguageStatus minority language in Bolivia
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Spanish NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticRelation closely related to Yuki language
related to Guaraní language
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasMorphologicalFeature person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrast between oral and nasal vowels
nasal harmony
small consonant inventory
hasSpeakerCommunity Sirionó communities in eastern Bolivia
hasSpeakers small number of speakers
hasUsage used in daily communication within Sirionó communities
used in traditional cultural practices
hasWordOrder SOV-dominant word order
ISO639-3Code srq
isSubjectOf descriptive grammars of Sirionó
phonological studies of Sirionó
languageBranch Tupi–Guaraní NERFINISHED
languageFamily Tupian
region lowland Bolivia
spokenBy Sirionó people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Beni Department NERFINISHED
Bolivia NERFINISHED
Santa Cruz Department NERFINISHED
subclassOf Guaraní language NERFINISHED
Tupian language
threatenedBy language shift to Spanish
usedFor oral communication
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Sirionó people hasEthnonym Sirionó
Tupi–Guaraní hasLanguage Sirionó