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Name: Chiquitano

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Chiquito; Tarapecosi; Tao; Chikitano; Besïro; Chiquit(an)o

Spoken in: Bolivia, Brazil

Number of speakers: 5,860 (Adelaar 2000). ISA (2000) lists 2,000 in Brazil. Ethnic population: 47,086 (Adelaar 2000) (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 6550 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 5855 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: cax

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Isolates & Small Families

Parent Subgroup: South American Isolates; South American Language Isolate (saso)

Child Dialects: Concepción (cax-con) Churapa (cax-chu) Tao (cax-tao) Besïro; Lomerío (cax-bes) Sansimoniano; San Simoniano (cax-sas) San Javier; Javierano; Xavierano (cax-sjr) San Miguel (cax-sml) Santiago (cax-stg)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Critically endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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