Chiquitano language

Chiquitano
	Bésiro
Spoken in	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Native speakers	6,000 out of an ethnic population of 50,000 (date missing)
Language family	Language isolate
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cax
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Chiquitano (also Bésiro or Tarapecosi) is an indigenous language of eastern Bolivia, spoken in the central region of the Santa Cruz province.

It is a language isolate. Greenberg linked it to the Macro-Jê languages, but this was never substantiated.

[edit] Phonology

Chiquitano has regressive assimilation triggered by nasal nuclei / ɨ̃ ĩ ũ õ ã ẽ/ and targeting consonant onsets within a morpheme.

The language has CV, CVV, and CVC syllables. It does not allow complex onsets or codas. The only codas allowed are nasal consonants.

^ Sans, Pierric (2011). Proceedings of the VII Encontro Macro-Jê.Brasilia, Brazil.

Fabre, Alain (2008-07-21). "Chiquitano". Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos.. http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~fabre/BookInternetVersio/Dic=Chiquitano.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-16.

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