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Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,271

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1,271

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Year of info

2012

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Brazil

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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,271

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2010

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-16.5519,-40.3417

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Native Speakers Worldwide

800 1,270 (2006 FUNASA) (2014)

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Brazil;

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Minas Gerais and Bahia states, 160 km inland from coast, in 14 villages.

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Minas Gerais and Bahia states, 160 km inland from coast, in 14 villages.

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802

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Year of info

2007

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Brazil

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Northeastern Minas Gerais State, 100 miles inland from the coast, Mucuri Valley, on the headwaters of the Umburanas River, Bertopolis Municipality, Terra Indigena Maxakali/Unificacao, in two Indigenous Areas, Agua Boa and Pradinho, which have been grouped together to form the Maxakali Indigenous Land

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Northeastern Minas Gerais State, 100 miles inland from the coast, Mucuri Valley, on the headwaters of the Umburanas River, Bertopolis Municipality, Terra Indigena Maxakali/Unificacao, in two Indigenous Areas, Agua Boa and Pradinho, which have been grouped together to form the Maxakali Indigenous Land

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2005

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-18.0,-40.0

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  2. Maxakalı - English dictionary. English-Maxakalı, glossary
    Popovich, Harold A. and Frances B. Popovich. 2005. "Maxakalı." Summer Institute of Lingusitics.
  3. The Nominal Reference System of Maxakalı
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  10. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
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  11. Documents et vocabulaires inédits de langues et de dialectes sud-américains
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  17. South America
    Crevels, Mily. 2007. "South America." In Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 103-196. London & New York: Routledge.