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Mehinaku language

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Mehinaku, also called Meinaku, is an Arawakan language spoken by the Mehinaku people in the Xingu Indigenous Park of Brazil. One of its dialects, Waurá-kumá, is somewhat intelligible with the related Waurá language due to that language's influence.

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Speaker Count
230 2
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1. Glottolog: Mehináku (languoid record)
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"level": "language", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Spoken L1 Language"
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2. Mehinaku language (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata number of speakers (P1098) statement (EntityId 323874): 230
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Wikidata item Q3501838, property P1098 (number of speakers): 230, point in time 2006-00-00 (normal rank, non-deprecated)
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