Baniwa do Içana
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Baniwa do Içana is an Arawakan indigenous language variety spoken by the Baniwa people along the Içana River region of the northwest Amazon, primarily in Brazil.
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Amazonian language
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Arawakan language ⓘ Northern Arawakan language ⓘ indigenous language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Upper Rio Negro indigenous languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Curripaco
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
other Baniwa varieties ⓘ |
| country | Brazil ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Baniwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Baniwa (Içana variety)
NERFINISHED
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Baniwa of Içana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasContactWith |
Nadahup languages
NERFINISHED
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Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ Tukanoan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDomain | indigenous education programs in Brazil ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
evidentiality distinctions
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noun classifiers ⓘ |
| hasISO639-3Code | bwi ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticArea | Vaupés linguistic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalFeature | polysynthetic verb morphology ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
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rich consonant inventory including affricates ⓘ |
| hasRevitalizationEffort |
bilingual education initiatives
ⓘ
community-based literacy projects ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticFeature |
use declining among younger speakers in some communities
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widespread bilingualism in Portuguese ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV-dominant ⓘ |
| isEndangered | true ⓘ |
| isVarietyOf | Baniwa language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Arawakan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| region | Amazonas state, Brazil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Baniwa people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Brazil
NERFINISHED
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Içana River region NERFINISHED ⓘ northwest Amazon ⓘ |
| subfamily | Northern Arawak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOfStudy |
Amazonian linguistics
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Arawakan comparative studies ⓘ |
| usedFor |
daily communication within Baniwa communities
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oral tradition ⓘ ritual practices ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
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