Terêna
E655596
Terêna is an Arawakan language spoken by the Terena Indigenous people of Brazil, primarily in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arawakan language
ⓘ
indigenous language of the Americas ⓘ language of Brazil ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Terena Indigenous people of Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | South America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contactLanguage | Brazilian Portuguese ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| glottologCode | tere1279 ⓘ |
| glottologName | Terena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Etelena
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terena NERFINISHED ⓘ Tereno NERFINISHED ⓘ Terêna (language) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBasicWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| hasCommunityOrthography | standardized Latin-based orthography used in schools ⓘ |
| hasConsonantSystem | moderately small consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation | grammars and dictionaries compiled by linguists ⓘ |
| hasLanguageRevitalizationEffort | bilingual education programs in Terena communities ⓘ |
| hasLanguageShiftPressure | shift toward Portuguese among younger speakers ⓘ |
| hasLanguageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticFeature |
postpositions rather than prepositions
ⓘ
rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasal vowels
ⓘ
simple consonant inventory ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | predictable word-level stress ⓘ |
| hasTypologicalFeature |
head-marking in the verb
ⓘ
possessive marking on nouns ⓘ |
| hasVowelSystem | five-vowel system ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| iso639-3Code | ter ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | indigenous schools in Terena communities ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Arawakan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringLanguages |
Guarani
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEthnicGroup | Terena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Central-West Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Terena people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
state of Mato Grosso do Sul ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf | Southern Arawakan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedIn |
community education
ⓘ
ritual practices ⓘ traditional oral narratives ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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