• Hixkaryana /ˌhɪʃkæriˈɑːnə/ is one of the Cariban languages, spoken by just over 500 people on the Nhamundá River, a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil...
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    Carijona–Hianákoto (S) Kashuyana: Sikiana (N), Kaxuiâna [Warikyana] † (S) Waiwai: Hixkaryána (S), Waiwai (N) Kaufman breaks this up into its constituent branches North...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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    Kalapalo (category Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    linguistic relatives are Ye'kuana or Makiritare in southern Venezuela and Hixkaryana language, spoken in the Nhamundá area in Brazil and Guyana. The Kalapalos...
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  • that is object–verb–subject such as Äiwoo, Guarijio, Hixkaryana, Urarina, the constructed language Klingon, and to some extent Tapirapé. Although not dominant...
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  • Mesoamerican languages, such as the Mayan languages and Oto-Manguean languages many Nilotic languages (including Nandi and Maasai) Many languages, such as...
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  • known languages, after SOV. Together, SVO and SOV account for more than 87% of the world's languages. The label SVO often includes ergative languages although...
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  • Bourg-Madame, France Health insurance exchange, in the United States Hixkaryana language, spoken in Brazil Jake Hix, a character in All the Wrong Questions...
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    Population of 365. Trombetas/Mapuera Indigenous territory (shared with Hixkaryana, Isolados Karapawyana, and Katuenayana peoples), with a land area of 3...
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  • object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) is a classification of languages, based on whether the structure predominates in pragmatically neutral...
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  • In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that...
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  • she him." VOS languages include Fijian and Malagasy. "Loves him she." OVS languages include Hixkaryana. "Him loves she." OSV languages include Xavante...
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  • linguistic names. Language portal Constructed language and List of constructed languages Language (for information about language in general) Language observatory...
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    contribute to the overall knowledge of language. This has resulted in publications on languages such as Hixkaryana and Pirahã, which have challenged the...
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    Cuacua, Venezuela Cumanagoto, Venezuela Guayano, Venezuela Guinau (4N 65W) Hixkaryána, Amazonas, Brazil Inao (4N 65W) Ingarikó, Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela...
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  • Tunayana), Hixkaryana Taranoan group Tiriyo subgroup: Akuriyo, Tiriyo, Trio Karihona (Carijona) Yukpa group: Yukpa, Japréria Languages not yet classified...
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  • Verb–object–subject word order (category Verb–object–subject languages)
    In linguistic typology, a verb–object–subject or verb–object–agent language, which is commonly abbreviated VOS or VOA, is one in which most sentences arrange...
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  • This is a list of ISO 639-3 language codes starting with H. Index | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u |...
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  • from related languages provide evidence for this analysis: compare the Tiriyó stem /eeka/ 'bite' with e.g. Waiwai, Katxuyana, Hixkaryana /eska/, Panare...
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  • Sérgio Meira (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    Tupian language families of lowland South America and in the Tiriyó language in particular. He has worked on the classification of the Cariban language family...
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  • some South American languages such as Hixkaryana and Urarina that have this uncommon structure. The following example is from Hixkaryana: Desmond C. Derbyshire...
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  • order only occurs in the Amazonian language area. Amazonian languages with object-initial order include Hixkaryana, Urubu, Apurinã, Xavante, and Nadëb...
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    Cuacua, Venezuela Cumanagoto, Venezuela Guayano, Venezuela Guinau (4N 65W) Hixkaryána, Amazonas, Brazil Hodï, Venezuela Inao (4N 65W) Ingarikó, Brazil, Guyana...
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  • Suriname, and Guyana. The Parukotoan languages are: Waiwai Sikiana, Hixkaryana Meira, Sérgio. 2006. A família lingüística Caribe (Karíb). Revista de...
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  • List of Indigenous territories (Brazil) (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    Homologised 313 Mura 118 (2010) Nhamundá-Mapuera Homologised 1,050,000,000 Hixkaryana, Katuenayana, Katxuyana, Waiwai 1961 (2010) Nova Esperança do Rio Jandiatuba...
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  • Carib languages. He is best known for his work on Hixkaryana, known for its object–verb–subject word order. Derbyshire's study of the language (as a linguist...
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  • John Bendor-Samuel (category Translators of the Bible into Bantu languages)
    language (PhD Thesis, University of London, 1958) 'Review of: Textos hixkaryâna, by Desmond C. Derbyshire', Lingua, 19 (1968) 'Review of: Languages of...
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