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Tenetehara language

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Native to
  
Brazil

Glottolog
  
temb1276

Native speakers
  
13,000 (2006)

Ethnicity
  
19,500 Guajajara (2006), 820 Tembé (1999), 60 Turiwara (1998)

Language family
  
Tupian Tupí–Guaraní Tenetehara branch Tenetehára

ISO 639-3
  
Either: gub – Guajajara tqb – Tembé

Tenetehára is a Tupi–Guarani language of Brazil. Sociolinguistically, it is two languages, Guajajara (Guazazzara) and Tembe, though these are mutually intelligible. Tembe was spoken by less than a quarter of its ethnic population of 820 in 2000; Guajajara, on the other hand, is more robust, being spoken by two thirds of its 20,000 people.

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Sounds

Consonants in Tenetehára:

Vowels in Tenetehára:

Tembe

Consonants in the Tembe dialect:

Vowels in the Tembe dialect:

References

Tenetehara language Wikipedia