Bororo language

Borôro
Boe Wadáru
Native to Brazil
Region central Mato Grosso
Ethnicity Bororo people
Native speakers
1,400 (2007)[1]
Dialects
Boróro (Biriboconé)
Orari (Orarimugodoge, Eastern Bororo)
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

  1. Borôro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bororo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "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


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