Chiquitano is a language isolate spoken by about 2,400 people mainly in the Santa Cruz Department in southwastern Bolivia, and in the state of Mato Grosso in western Brazil. In Brazil, it is spoken particularly in the municipalities of Cáceres, Porto Esperidião, Pontes e Lacerda, and Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade in the southwest of Mato Grosso.
Chiquitano is also known as Chiquito, Tarapecosi, Besïro or Bésɨro. Dialects include:
Various ways to write Chiquitano with the Latin alphabet have been devised by missionaries and others since the colonial era.
Download an alphabet chart for Chiquitano (Excel)
Details of the Chiquitano alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Namanaiña baama osiborisapa aboma iku kix, uxiampae nakaxima, chepatai nikuaxima, aboma aibu ñapanaunkuxima, na uxia uimia imomantoe takanaxti chepe namanaiña yarukityoximantoe.
Nanaiña axima nosiborisapa abe iku kix, uxiampae nubakax, chepatai niyukuax, abe aibu ñupapanaunkux, na uxia oboi ñomeampatoe takanaxti chepe nanaiña nubarukixhatoe.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Information about Chiquitano | Numbers
Information about Chiquitano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiquitano_language
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Língua_chiquitana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migueleño_Chiquitano
https://pueblosoriginarios.com/lenguas/chiquitano.php
https://www.native-languages.org/chiquitano.htm
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/chiq1253
http://www.language-archives.org/language/cax
https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_cax_detail-1?
https://www.academia.edu/49136513/Chiquitano_a_presentation
Adaizan, Ainu, Basque, Burushaski, Candoshi-Shapra, Chiquitano, Chitimacha, Eskayan, Hadza, Haida, Karuk, Kawésqar, Keres, Kuot, Kusunda, Kutenai, Maybrat, Natchez, Nihali, Nivkh, Páez, Purepecha, Sandawe, Seri, Sumerian, Tartessian, Ticuna, Tiwi, Tonkawa, Tunica, Urarina, Waorani, Warao, Wardaman, Washo, Yaghan, Yele, Yuchi/Euchee, Zuni
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
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