Movima
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Movima
- A member of an ethnic group living in northeastern Bolivia.
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Proper noun[edit]
Movima
- A language isolate spoken by these people.
- 1999, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, “Other small families and isolates”, in R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, editors, The Amazonian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 369:
- An unusual property of Movima is its system of numeral classifiers.
- 2002, Colette Grinevald, “Nominal Classification in Movima”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sérgio Meira, Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), →ISBN, page 218:
- 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.
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