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banawa language
The BanawaLanguage is an AruanLanguage of Brazil. SIL code: BNH. ISO 639-2: sai. Population: 70 (1994 SIL). Region: Amazonas, upriver quite a distance from the Jamamadi. Half live on the Banawa River, others on small creeks and in scattered locations, 1 village and 2 extended family settlements. Alternate names: KITIYA, BANAVA, BANAUA, JAFI. Comments: Not as close to Jamamadi linguistically as previously thought. Some bilingualism in Jamamadi, and a little in Portuguese. They prefer their own language. They call themselves 'Kitiya.' Literacy rate in first language: Below 1%. Literacy rate in second language: Below 5%. Tropical forest.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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Instancesaruan languageAn AruanLanguage is any of eight related languages of Brazil that form a family of languages apparently unrelated to others.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 content bearing physicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
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 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.
 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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