Sirionó language

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The Sirionó language is an indigenous Tupian language spoken by the Sirionó people of Bolivia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human language
indigenous language
alternateName Mbia Chee NERFINISHED
Siriono NERFINISHED
Sirionó NERFINISHED
contactLanguage Spanish
continent South America
country Bolivia
ethnicGroup Sirionó people NERFINISHED
family Tupian language family NERFINISHED
hasCaseMarking yes
hasDerivationalAffixes yes
hasDocumentedGrammar yes
hasDocumentedLexicon yes
hasGenderDistinctionsInPronouns no
hasInclusiveExclusiveDistinction yes
hasLanguageRevitalizationEfforts limited
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish NERFINISHED
hasNasalConsonants yes
hasNasalHarmony yes
hasOralNasalVowelContrast yes
hasOralStops yes
hasOralTradition yes
hasPersonMarkersOnVerbs yes
hasPhonemicTone no
hasPluralMarkers yes
hasPostpositions yes
hasReduplication yes
isEndangered yes
isSubjectToLanguageShift yes
isTaughtInPrimarySchool rarely or not systematically
languageCodeISO639-3 srq
morphologicalType agglutinative language
neighboringIndigenousLanguages Guarayu language NERFINISHED
Trinitario language
Yuracaré language NERFINISHED
numberOfSpeakers very few hundred or fewer
primaryWordOrder SOV
region Beni Department NERFINISHED
Santa Cruz Department NERFINISHED
shiftLanguage Spanish NERFINISHED
spokenBy indigenous community
spokenInEnvironment tropical lowland forests
status severely endangered
subfamily Tupi–Guaraní branch
usedInDomain home
traditional cultural practices
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Sirionó people language Sirionó language