Gavião of Jiparaná | |
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Gavião of Rondônia | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Rondônia |
Ethnicity | Gavião – 520 (2004)[1] |
Native speakers | 340 (2006)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gvo |
Glottolog | gavi1246 |
ELP | Gavião |
Zoró[2] |
Gaviao of Jiparana (Gavião do Jiparaná), also known as Digüt, Ikolen and Gavião do Rondônia, is the language of the Gavião of Rondônia, Brazil. It is a Tupian language of the Monde branch. It is partially intelligible with Suruí. The Zoró dialect spoken by the Zoró people is sometimes considered a separate language.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gavião of Jiparaná at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Zoró.
External links
[edit]- ELAR archive of Gavião and Suruí Languages in whistled and instrumental speech by Julien Meyer
- ELAR archive of Language Documentation of traditional culture among the Gavião and Suruí of Rondônia by Dennis Moore