Kadiweu language
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Kadiweu is a Mataco-Guaicuru language spoken by 1,200-1,800 people in Brazil. It is mainly a subject-verb-object language and its ISO/DIS 639-3 code is kbc.
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Kadiwéu is a Waikurúan language spoken by about 1,000 Indians distributed over an area of 538,000 hectares in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. The Waikurúan language family has two branches: (a) the Waikurúan Branch, which includes Mbayá and its descendent Kadiwéu; and (b) the Southern Branch, which comprises four other languages: Toba, Pilagá, Mocoví, and Apibón. Toba is spoken in the eastern part of the Chaco and Formosa provinces of Argentina, in southern Paraguay, and in the eastern part of Bolivia; there are approximately 25,000 speakers. Pilagá, with about 4,000 speakers, is spoken in the northeastern part of Chaco province, and in eastern Formosa, Argentina; and Mocoví, with about 7,000 speakers, is spoken in Argentina in the northern part of Santa Fe and southern Chaco provinces. Abipón, which was spoken in the eastern part of Chaco province, Argentina, is now extinct and was very closely related to the other languages in this branch.
