Hixkariana

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Hixkariana is an alternative name for the Hixkaryana language, a Cariban language spoken by the Hixkaryana people of Brazil.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cariban language
language
alternativeNameOf Hixkaryana language NERFINISHED
belongsTo Amazonian languages NERFINISHED
indigenous languages of Brazil
continent South America
country Brazil
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnicGroup Hixkaryana NERFINISHED
hasAlternateName Hixkaryana language NERFINISHED
hasAlternateSpelling Hixkaryana NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars and dictionaries
studies on basic word order
hasMorphologyType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
rich consonant inventory
vowel length distinctions
hasSpeakerCommunity villages along tributaries of the Rio Nhamundá
hasWordOrder object–verb–subject
ISO639-3Code hix
languageBranch Northern Cariban NERFINISHED
languageFamily Cariban languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus minority language in Brazil
notableFor early documentation of object–verb–subject basic word order
region Amazonas region of Brazil NERFINISHED
spokenBy Hixkaryana people NERFINISHED
spokenInCountry Brazil NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature head-final language
postpositional language
usedBy indigenous community in Brazil
usedIn traditional oral narratives
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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