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Preferred term

hixHixkaryána  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Hixkaryana is one of the Carib languages, spoken by just over 500 people on the Nhamundá River, a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil. It is one of a few known natural languages that normally use object–verb–subject word order, and may have been the first such language to be described (by linguist Desmond C. Derbyshire).

Entry terms

  • Hixkaryana language

ISO 639-3 code

  • hix

Notation

  • hix

In other languages

  • Hixkaryana

    French

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma hixkaryána

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/hix

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