Language contact in Amazonia

This book investigates the contact between Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the Vaupés river basin in northwest Amazonia, which spans Colombia and Brazil. In this region language is seen as a badge of identity: language mixing is resisted for ideological reasons. The book considers which part...

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Main Author: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.
Other Authors: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
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English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2002
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh