Bororo language

Bororo language

The Bororo language, spelled locally as "Borôro", is a part of the Chiquito-Borôro language family, a part of the Macro-Gê languages root.cite web |url=http://indian-cultures.com/Cultures/bororo.html |title=Bororo Indians |accessdate=2007-09-21] An alternate name for the Bororo language is "Boe".cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bor |title=Borôro A language of Brazil |accessdate=2007-09-21] Bororo is spoken by the Bororo people, hunters and gatherers in the Central Mato Grosso region of Brazil. The Bororo language has two branches, and three dialects:cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90792 |title=Language Family Trees Macro-Ge, Bororo |accessdate=2007-09-21]
*Bororo Proper
**Borôro [bor] (Brazil)
**Umotina [umo] (Brazil)
*Otuke
**Otuke [otu] (Brazil)

Classification

ISO 639-3: bor

References

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 0674202856

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bor Ethnologue's partial bibliography]


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