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Preferred term

irnIrántxe  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Irantxe (Iranxe, Iranshe), also known as Münkü (Mỹky), is an indigenous American language that is spoken in Mato Grosso, Brazil by about 200 people. It is generally left unclassified due to lack of data. Ethnologue (2000) idiosyncratically assigns it to the Arawakan family, but there is no published account to back this up (Fabre 2005). The most recent descriptions treat it as a language isolate, saying that it "bears no similarity with other language families" (Arruda 2003), though this may not be based on new data (Monserrat 2010).

Entry terms

  • Irantxe language

ISO 639-3 code

  • irn

Notation

  • irn

In other languages

  • Idioma irantxe

    Spanish

URI

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

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