Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Movima

Language; Endangered languages

Movima is a language that is spoken by about 1400 (nearly half) of the Movima, a group of Native Americans that resides in Bolivia. It is considered a language isolate, as it has not been proven ...

Pacahuara

Language; Endangered languages

Pacahuara (Pacawara) is a nearly extinct Panoan language spoken by only 17 of 18 Pacahuara people. The Pacahuara have been located to northwest of Magdalena, Beni, Bolivia and to Nueva Esperanza ...

Reyesano is a Tacanan language that was spoken by only a few speakers, including children, in 1961 in Bolivia. It is considered nearly extinct. However, it is doubtful that this language will survive ...

Saraveca

Language; Endangered languages

Saraveca is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia by the Sarave. It is said to be the only language with a numeral system based exclusively on five, though in fact quinary systems are ...

Tacana

Language; Endangered languages

The Tacana language is a Western Tacanan language spoken by approximately 1,800 Tacana people in Bolivia out of an ethnic population of approximately 5,000 in the jungles along the Beni and Madre de ...

Yuki

Language; Endangered languages

The Yuki language, also known as Yukian, Ukiah, Ukomno'm, was a language of California, spoken by the indigenous American Yuki people, formerly in the Eel River area, the Round Valley Reservation, ...

Yuracare

Language; Endangered languages

Yuracaré is an endangered language isolate of central Bolivia in Cochabamba and Beni departments spoken by the Yuracaré people. There are approximately 2,500 speakers. These numbers are in decline as ...