Movima
English
Noun
Movima
- A member of an ethnic group living in northeastern Bolivia.
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Proper noun
Movima
- A language isolate spoken by these people.
- 1999, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; R. M. W. Dixon, “Other small families and isolates”, in R. M. W. Dixon; Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, editors, The Amazonian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 369:
- An unusual property of Movima is its system of numeral classifiers.
- 2002, Grinevald, Colette, “Nominal Classification in Movima”, in Mily Crevels; Simon van de Kerke; Sérgio Meira; Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), →ISBN, page 218:
- Thus, in these original two pages of notes on the “descriptive-object pronouns” of Movima, Judy and Judy provided enough information to establish that Movima had a nominal classification system.
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Further reading
- ISO 639-3 code mzp (SIL)