Mosetén
Chimané; Chimane; Chiman; Tsimane'; Tsimane; Tsinun; Tsimané; Chumano; Moseten; Tsinun; Tsimané; Nawazi-Moñtji; Rache; Muchan; Tucupi; Aparono; Mosetén language area;
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Tsimane': at least 4000 speakers; Mosetén: about 800 speakers (Sakel treats Tsimane' and Mosetén as distinct languages)
2009
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"Includes 585 Moseten speakers." Data for the number of native speakers comes from Adelaar (2000). 5,320 (Adelaar 2004). Ethnic population: 5,840 (2006 PIB) (2013 unchanged). Mosetén move into Tsimané communities and function with seemingly no communication difficulties (2002 NTM) (2013). (2016 unchanged.)
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8,615 Tsimané, 1,588 Mosetén
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Mosetén: 948 speakers (ethnic populations 1,588); Tsimane': 6,351 speakers ( (ethnic populations 8,615)
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Figures include 580 speakers and 1,200 ethnic group members of the dialect Mosetén.
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Bolivia, Department of Beni, Province of Ballivian, municipalities of San Borja and Rurrenabaque, on the Maniqui River, Yucumo-Rurrenabaque, Bosque de Chimanes, Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure.
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Bolivia, Department of Beni, Province of Ballivian, municipalities of San Borja and Rurrenabaque, on the Maniqui River, Yucumo-Rurrenabaque, Bosque de Chimanes, Parque Nacional Isiboro-Secure.
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All ages. Women and elders speak very little Spanish [spa]. Children don’t acquire Spanish until they are 15, unless they attend a school in one of the highland communities.
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- Estado de las lenguas indígenas del Oriente, Chaco y Amazonia BolivianosBazán, Rodríguez and Luis Antonio. 2000. "Estado De Las Lenguas Indígenas Del Oriente, Chaco Y Amazonia Bolivianos." In As Línguas Amazônicas Hoje/Las Lenguas Amazonicas Hoy/Les Langues d'Amazonie aujourd'hui/The Amazonian Languages Today, edited by F. Queixalós and O. Renault-Lescure. 129-150. São Paulo: Museo Paraense Emilio Goeldi.
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
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- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
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