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SouthernNambikuaraLanguage

The SouthernNambikuaraLanguage is a NambiquaranLanguage of Brazil. SIL code: NAB. ISO 639-2: sai. Population: 900 (1988 SIL), including 150 Galera (1983 SIL). Region: Northwestern Mato Grosso, scattered along the Porto Velho-Cuiaba highway for about 300 km. 10 villages. Alternate names: NAMBIQUARA, NAMBIKWARA. Dialects: MANDUKA, KHITHAULHU, SERRA AZUL, HAHAINTESU, WASUSU, ALATESU, WAIKISU, GALERA. Comments: The Manduca are semi-integrated. The Nambikuara were reduced from 10,000 in the 1940s by measles. Manairisu is a subgroup. Grammar. SOV, tonal. Literacy rate in first language: 5% to 10%. Literacy rate in second language: 5% to 15%. Traditional religion, Christian. NT 1992.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)

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Instances	ContentBearingPhysical	Any 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.
	Entity	The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
	HumanLanguage	The subclass of Languages used by Humans.
	Language	A 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.
	LinguisticExpression	This 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.
	NambiquaranLanguage	A NambiquaranLanguage is any one of five related languages, spoken in Brazil, forming a distinct family of languages that are unrelated to any others.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	Physical	An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
	SpokenHumanLanguage	A 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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