Bororoan languages

Borôroan
Geographic
distribution:		 Brazil
Linguistic classification:

Macro-Gê

  • Borôroan
Glottolog: boro1281[1]
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The Borôroan languages of Brazil are Borôro and the extinct Umotína and Otuke. They form part of the Macro-Jê proposal.

Languages

See Otuke for various additional varieties which may have been dialects of it; there are other recorded groups that may have spoken languages or dialects closer to Bororo, such as Aravirá, but nothing is directly known of their language.

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Bororoan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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