| Nambikwaran | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Mato Grosso, Brazil. |
| Genetic classification: |
Nambikwaran |
| Subdivisions: |
Nambikwara (southern)
Mamaindé (northern)
Sabanês
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The Nambikwaran languages are a small language family of Mato Grosso Province, Brazil. They are often considered dialects of a single language, but are mutually unintelligible.
Mamainde (Northern Nambikwara), with about 135 speakers, has five dialects (Lakondê, Latundê, Mamaindê, Nagarotê and Tawandê); Nambikwara proper (Southern Nambikwara), with some 1150 speakers, has eleven (among them Campo, Manduka, Galera and Guaporé);[1] and Sabanê, with only 60 speakers, has no dialectal variation.[2]
Most Nambikwara are monolingual but some young men speak Portuguese[3]. Especially the men of the Sabanê group are trilingual, speaking both Portuguese and Mamainde.[4]
  | Ethnologue - Ethnologue report for language code: sae |
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