Mawé language

Mawe
Sataré
Native to Brazil
Ethnicity Mawe people
Native speakers
9,200  (2008)[1]
Tupian
  • Mawe
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mav
Glottolog sate1243[2]

The Mawe language of Brazil, also known as Sataré (Mabue, Maragua, Andira, Arapium), is one of the Tupian languages. It is spoken by 7000, many of them monolingual.

References

  1. Mawe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sateré-Mawé". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.