Mawé language

Mawé
Sataré
Native to Brazil
Ethnicity Mawé people
Native speakers
9,200 (2008)[1]
Tupian
  • Mawé
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mav
Glottolog sate1243[2]

The Mawé language of Brazil, also known as Sataré (Mabue, Maragua, Andira, Arapium), is one of the Tupian languages. It is spoken by 7,000 people, many of them monolingual.

References

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


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