Omagua

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Omagua is an indigenous language of the Amazon Basin, historically spoken by the Omagua people along the upper Amazon River and belonging to the Tupi–Guaraní branch of the Tupian language family.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language
alternativeName Cambeba NERFINISHED
Kambeba NERFINISHED
Omagua–Kambeba NERFINISHED
Umaua NERFINISHED
belongsToMacroArea South American macro-area
contactInfluence Nheengatu language NERFINISHED
Portuguese language
Spanish language
continent South America
country Brazil
Peru
documentationStatus poorly documented language
endangermentCause language shift to Portuguese
language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Omagua people NERFINISHED
geneticClassification American indigenous language
hasISO639-3Code omg
historicalContact Jesuit missionaries in the Amazon Basin
historicalRegion Solimões River region NERFINISHED
upper Amazon
historicalStatus lingua franca of parts of the upper Amazon in the colonial period
languageBranch Tupi–Guaraní branch NERFINISHED
languageFamily Tupian NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Tupi–Guaraní NERFINISHED
lexifierFor regional mixed varieties in the upper Amazon
morphologicalFeature rich verbal morphology
phonologicalFeature nasal harmony (typical of Tupi–Guaraní languages)
region northeastern Peru
western Brazilian Amazon
relatedTo Cocama language NERFINISHED
Guaraní language NERFINISHED
Tupinambá language NERFINISHED
revitalizationEffort community-based language revitalization projects in Brazil
spokenAlong upper Amazon River NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion Amazon Basin NERFINISHED
status moribund language
severely endangered language
syntacticFeature use of postpositions rather than prepositions
typologicalFeature SOV word order (historically reconstructed)
agglutinative morphology
usedBy Omagua ethnic group NERFINISHED
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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