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Movima
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English
Noun
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A member of an ethnic group living in northeastern Bolivia.
Translations
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn
French: fr Movima m
Movima: mzp mowi:maj
Spanish: es
Proper noun
A language isolate spoken by these people.
en 1999 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; R. M. W. Dixon Other small families and isolates The Amazonian Languages 369 R. M. W. Dixon; Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Cambridge Cambridge University Press 0-521-57021-2 An unusual property of Movima is its system of numeral classifiers.
en 2002 Colette Grinevald Nominal Classification in Movima Mily Crevels; Simon van de Kerke; Sérgio Meira; Hein van der Voort Current Studies on South American Languages 218 Leiden Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS) http://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/illa:vol3n15/illa_vol3n15_grinevald.pdf 90-5789-076-3 Thus, in these original two pages of notes on the “descriptive-object pronouns” of Movima, Judy and Judy provided enough information to establish that Movima had a nominal classification system. https://web.archive.org/web/20250209210242/http://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/illa%3Avol3n15/illa_vol3n15_grinevald.pdf 9 February 2025
Translations
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn
French: fr movima m
Movima: mzp chonsineɬ, mzp chonsineɬ di' mowi:maj
Spanish: es movima m
Further reading
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