Mawé

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Mawé is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sateré-Mawé people of the Brazilian Amazon.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
indigenous language
hasAlternativeName Mabue NERFINISHED
Sateré NERFINISHED
Sateré-Mawé NERFINISHED
hasAssociatedPeople Sateré-Mawé people NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasCountryOfficialLanguage Portuguese
hasDocumentation descriptive grammars
dictionaries
text collections
hasDomainOfUse community gatherings
home
traditional ceremonies
hasEndonym Sateré-Mawé NERFINISHED
hasEthnicity Sateré-Mawé NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode mawe1242
hasGlottologName Mawe NERFINISHED
hasISO639-3Code mav
hasLanguageBranch Mawé NERFINISHED
hasLanguageCodeStandard ISO 639-3 NERFINISHED
hasLanguageFamily Tupian
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasMorphologicalFeature person marking on verbs
rich verbal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
nasal vowels
oral vowels
hasRegion Andirá River region NERFINISHED
Maués River region
lower Amazon basin NERFINISHED
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Portuguese
hasSubfamily Mawé branch
isEndangeredBy language shift to Portuguese
isPartOf Tupian language family NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language
vulnerable language
spokenBy Sateré-Mawé people NERFINISHED
spokenInCountry Brazil NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion Amazonas state NERFINISHED
Brazilian Amazon NERFINISHED
Pará state NERFINISHED
usedFor daily communication within Sateré-Mawé communities
usedIn oral literature of the Sateré-Mawé people
traditional rituals of the Sateré-Mawé people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Tupian majorBranch Mawé