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Preferred term

xavXavánte  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Xavante language is a Ge language spoken by the Xavante people in about 170 villages in the area surrounding Eastern Mato Grosso, Brazil. The Xavante language is unusual in its phonology, its object–subject–verb word order, and its use of honorary and endearment terms in its morphology.

Entry terms

  • Xavante language

ISO 639-3 code

  • xav

Notation

  • xav

In other languages

  • Xavánte

    French

  • Xavante

    German

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma xavante

    Spanish

URI

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

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