Zamucoan
3 languages
Zamucoan is a language family of 3 languages; the most are spoken in Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil.
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Zamucoan (also Samúkoan) is a small language family of Paraguay (northeast Chaco) and Bolivia (Santa Cruz Department).
The family has hardly been studied by linguists (as of Adelaar & Muysken 2004), although several studies have recently appeared (see: Bertinetto 2009, 2010, 2013; Ciucci 2007/08, 2009, 2010a, 2010b, 2013a, 2013b). Recent studies show that the Zamucoan languages are characterized by a rare syntactic configuration which is called para-hypotaxis, in which coordination and subordination are used simultaneously to connect clauses (Bertinetto & Ciucci 2012).
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