Endangered Languages Project - Movima

Movima

^{[aka Mobima, Móvima, Móbima]}

Classification: Isolate

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mobima, Móvima, Móbima, Moyma, Movime
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, South American
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mzp
DOWNLOAD		As csv
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Information from: “Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS)” . Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Moxos, Bolivia Amazon

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,173
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
12,230

PLACES: Bolivia (Amazonia)

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,452
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
6,516
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Three quarters of the population are monolinguals in Spanish; less that one fourth are bilingual in Movima and Spanish.
The large part of Movima speakers are adults and elders, while nearly all the children are monolingual in Spanish. (p. 374)

DATE OF INFO: speakers: 1994 census, ethnic population: 1997

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: Three quarters of the population are monolinguals in Spanish; less that one fourth are bilingual in Movima and Spanish.
The large part of Movima speakers are adults and elders, while nearly all the children are monolingual in Spanish. (p. 374)

PLACES: Bolivia

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Yacuma province, Beni department; most speakers live in Santa Ana del Yacuma, some liv e in communities in Ballivián province.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,450
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
6,528
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers and for the ethnic population come from Adelaar (2000).

1,450 (Adelaar 2004); ethnic population: 6,530 (Adelaar 2004) (2013 unchanged).

PLACES: Bolivia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Central Beni Department, Santa Ana area on the Yacuma River, Santa Ana del Yacuma, Carnavales, Miraflores, San Lorenzo, Carmen de Iruyañez, 20 de Enero, Buen Día, 18 de Noviembre, Bella Flor, Ipimo, Navidad.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Central Beni Department, Santa Ana area on the Yacuma River, Santa Ana del Yacuma, Carnavales, Miraflores, San Lorenzo, Carmen de Iruyañez, 20 de Enero, Buen Día, 18 de Noviembre, Bella Flor, Ipimo, Navidad.

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,452
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,452
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~2,000
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
6,530
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
all fluent speakers are significantly over fifty years old.

PLACES: Bolivia

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press