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Classification: Isolate
·threatened
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Chiquito, Tarapecosi, Tao, Chikitano, Besïro, Chiquit(an)o |
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Isolate, South American |
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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter
Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter
196,361
There are 4,615 speakers in Bolivia out of an ethnic population of 195,624, and 50 speakers out of 737 in Brazil.
Information from: “"Documentation of Bésiro, the endangered language of the Chiquitano people of Lowland Bolivia" HRELP Abstract” . Sans, Pierric (2010)
Spanish
lowlands of Bolivia
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “South America” (103-196) . Mily Crevels (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
47,080
~5,880 speakers in Bolivia. There are more speakers in Brazil, but the number is unknown.
Speakers are switching to Spanish in great numbers. For each eight elders there is only one youngster who still speaks Chiquitano.
Bolivia: Department of Santa Cruz, provinces of Nuflo de Chavez, Velasco, Chiquitos, Angel Sandoval and German Busch. Brazil: Mato Grosso State, border area with Bolivia, municipalities of Vila Bela, Caceres, and Porto Espiridiao.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
47,086
Data for the number of native speakers and the ethnic population come from Adelaar (2000). "ISA (2000) lists 2,000 in Brazil."
5,860 in Bolivia (Adelaar 2004). Ethnic population: 47,100 (Adelaar 2004) (2013 unchanged).
Santa Cruz Department, provinces of Ñuflo de Chávez, Velasco, Chiquitos, Angel Sandoval and Germán Busch, San Ignacio, San Miguel, San Rafael, Santa Rosa de la Roca, San Javier, San Ramón, Concepción, Lomerío, Roboré, San José, Florida.
Santa Cruz Department, provinces of Ñuflo de Chávez, Velasco, Chiquitos, Angel Sandoval and Germán Busch, San Ignacio, San Miguel, San Rafael, Santa Rosa de la Roca, San Javier, San Ramón, Concepción, Lomerío, Roboré, San José, Florida.