Movima
Movima is a language isolate spoken in Bolivia. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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.
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Words in Movima
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | eLa7us* | |
| eye | Cora* | |
| ear | lotot* | |
| nose | baCi* | |
| tooth | soiLa* | |
| tongue | rulkwa* | |
| hand | Copa* | |
| blood | don7i* | |
| bone | nun7i* | |
| skin | tobenkwakwa* | |
| knee | bamo* | |
| breast | Cakwa* | |
| liver | sondo* | |
| water | tomi | |
| fire | ve7e* | |
| sun | tinno* | |
| star | didinkwa* | |
| stone | Campa* | |
| tree | ko7o* | |
| leaf | lorankwa* | |
| night | imaini* | |
| dog | pako* | |
| fish | bilau | |
| louse | dam7i* | |
| one | sotara* | |
| two | oira* | |
| I | inLa* | |
| you | ulkwan* | |
| we | i7Li* | |
| drink | yalowe* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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