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Preferred term

xavXavánte  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • The Xavante language is a Ge language spoken by the Xavante people in about 170 villages in the area surrounding Eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil. The Xavante language is unusual in its phonology, its object–subject–verb word order, and its use of honorary and endearment terms in its morphology.

Entry terms

  • Xavante language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xav

nearly same as

In other languages

  • Xavánte

    French

  • Xavante

    German

  • Lenga xavánte

    Piedmontese

  • Língua aquém

    Portuguese

  • Shawanti simi

    Quechua

  • Idioma xavante

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/xav

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