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toba maskoy language
The TobaMaskoyLanguage is a MascoianLanguage of Paraguay. SIL code: TMF. ISO 639-2: sai. Population: 2,500 (1991 SIL). Region: Reserve of 30,000 hectares near Puerto Victoria and Puerto Guarani, eastern Chaco. Alternate names: TOBA OF PARAGUAY, QUILYILHRAYROM, CABANATIT, MACHICUI, ENENLHIT. Comments: Men 40 years and older speak Paraguayan Guarani, others use it as second language, and it is used as the church language. They are reported to speak a 'poor' variety of Paraguayan Guarani. Young people speak Toba-Maskoy and learn some Spanish in school. Different from Toba Qom, Toba-Pilaga of Argentina, Maskoy of Paraguay, or Maskoy Pidgin.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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 entityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 human languageThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 languageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 linguistic expressionThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 mascoian languageA MascoianLanguage is any one of five related languages, spoken in Paraguay, forming a distinct family of languages that are unrelated to any others.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 physicalAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 spoken human languageA SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
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