Bororo language
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| Borôro | |
|---|---|
| Boe Wadáru | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | central Mato Grosso |
| Ethnicity | Bororo people |
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Native speakers
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1,400 (2007)[1] |
| Dialects |
Boróro (Biriboconé)
Orari (Orarimugodoge, Eastern Bororo)
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bor |
| Glottolog | boro1282[2] |
Bororo (Borôro), also known as Boe, is the sole surviving language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Gê languages.[3] It is spoken by the Bororo people, hunters and gatherers in the Central Mato Grosso region of Brazil.
References[edit]
- ^ Borôro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bororo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ "Bororo Indians". Retrieved 2007-09-21.
Further reading[edit]
- Maybury-Lewis, David, and Joan Bamberger. Dialectical Societies: The Gê and Bororo of Central Brazil. Harvard studies in cultural anthropology, 1. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-674-20285-6
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