Bororo language
Appearance
Borôro | |
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Boe Wadáru | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | central Mato Grosso |
Ethnicity | Bororo people |
Native speakers | 1,400 (2007)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bor |
ELP | Bororo |
The Bororo language, or Borôro, also known as Boe, is the sole surviving language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Gê languages.[2] It is spoken by the Bororo people, hunters and gatherers in the Central Mato Grosso region of Brazil.
References
- ^ Borôro at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ "Bororo Indians". Retrieved 2007-09-21.
Further reading
- 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