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Movima

Movima noun: a member of an ethnic group living in northeastern Bolivia.

Noun

Movima

  1. A member of an ethnic group living in northeastern Bolivia.

Proper noun

Movima

  1. A language isolate spoken by these people.
    • An unusual property of Movima is its system of numeral classifiers.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...
    • 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.2002, Colette Grinevald, “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...

Questions about Movima

What does Movima mean?
Movima means a member of an ethnic group living in northeastern Bolivia.
What part of speech is Movima?
Movima can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Movima in the dictionary

  1. moviewatcher
  2. moviewatchers
  3. moviewise
  4. Movileni
  5. Movilița
  6. Movima
  7. moving
  8. moving about
  9. moving ahead
  10. moving along
  11. moving an inch

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