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Movima

Movima is a language isolate spoken in Bolivia. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Movima · 13.8°S 65.6°W

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

Movima (Movima: Chosineɬ di' mowi:maj) is a language that is spoken by about 1,400 (nearly half) of the Movima, a group of Indigenous people of the Llanos de Moxos region of the Bolivian Amazon, in northeastern Bolivia. It is considered a language isolate, as it has not been proven to be related to any other language.

From Wikipedia · Movima language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Movima

MeaningWordRomanization
nameeLa7us*
eyeCora*
earlotot*
nosebaCi*
toothsoiLa*
tonguerulkwa*
handCopa*
blooddon7i*
bonenun7i*
skintobenkwakwa*
kneebamo*
breastCakwa*
liversondo*
watertomi
fireve7e*
suntinno*
stardidinkwa*
stoneCampa*
treeko7o*
leaflorankwa*
nightimaini*
dogpako*
fishbilau
lousedam7i*
onesotara*
twooira*
IinLa*
youulkwan*
wei7Li*
drinkyalowe*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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