Xavante (language)
| Xavante | ||
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Spoken in |
Brazil | |
| speaker | 9,600 (2006) | |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
xav |
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Xavante or Shavante is a Ge language spoken by the Xavante people in the east of Mato Grosso , Brazil . The language has around 9,600 speakers (as of 2006), of which 7,000 are monolingual. It is one of the few languages with a regular object-subject-verb word order . The most closely related living language is Xerénte .
distribution
The language is spoken by almost 10,000 people of all ages in the east of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso between the Rio das Mortes and Araguaia rivers .
alphabet
The language is written in a modified Latin script:
| Xavante | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| a | ã | b | d | dz | e | é | H | i | ĩ | m | mr | n | nh | O | O | O | p | r | t | ts | u | w | y | ö | ' |
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| [ a ] / [ ɐ ] | [ ɑ̃ ] | [ b ] | [ D ] / [ ND ] | [ z ] / [ ʒ ] / [ dz ] / [ dʒ ] | [ e ] | [ ɛ̯ ] | [ h ] | [ i ] / [ ɪ ] / [ i ] | [ ĩ ] | [ m ] | [ mr ] | [ n̩ ] | [ ɲ ] | [ ɔ̯ ] | [ ɔ̃ ] | [ o ] | [ p (ʰ) ] | [ r ] | [ t̪ (ʰ) ] | [ t͡ʃʰ ] | [ u ] / [ ʊ ] | [ w ] | [ ɨ ] | [ ə ] | [ ʔ ] |