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Nominalization as a possible source for subordination in Awetí
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

170

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Spoken by ca. 170 people in the Upper Xingu area of Central Brazil.

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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Brazil, in the Upper Xingu area of Central Brazil

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160

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Year of info

2010

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-12.2053,-53.3705

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

140

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Data for the number of native speakers comes from ISA (2006). 170 (2011 S. Drude) (2013).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Brazil;

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Mato Grosso, Xingú park, Rio Culiseu (upper Xingú River), 2 villages: Aweti, Sauva.

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Mato Grosso, Xingú park, Rio Culiseu (upper Xingú River), 2 villages: Aweti, Sauva.

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

160

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160

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Brazil

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Endangered

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138

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138

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Brazil, Mato Grosso State

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Location description

Southern part of the Parque Indigena do Xingu, two villages.

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Southern part of the Parque Indigena do Xingu, two villages.

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A few Aweti speak Portuguese also.

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

90

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  1. 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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  2. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
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    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/
  7. Aspectos Morfossintáticos da Língua Aweti (tupi)
    Cristina De Cássia Borella. Aspectos Morfossintáticos Da Língua Aweti (tupi). Master thesis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2000.
  8. On the position of the Awetí language in the Tupí family
    Drude, Sebastian. 2006. "On the Position of the Awetí Language in the Tupí Family." In Guaraní y 'Mawetí-Tupí-Guaraní': estudios históricos y descriptivos sobre una familia lingüística de América del Sur, edited by Wolf Dietrich. 11-46. Berlin: LIT.
  9. The Tribes of the Upper Xingu River
    Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1948. "The Tribes of the Upper Xingu River." In The Tropical Forest Tribes, edited by Julian H. Steward. 3: 321-348. Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology.
  10. Awetí in relation with Kamayurá: The two Tupian languages of the Upper Xingu