Movima

English

Noun

Movima

1. A member of an ethnic group living in northeastern Bolivia.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• French: Movima (fr) m
• Movima: mowi:maj
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Proper noun

Movima

1. 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.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• French: movima (fr) m
• Movima: chonsineɬ, chonsineɬ di' mowi:maj
• Spanish: movima m

Further reading

• ISO 639-3 code mzp (SIL)