Moxo languages

Moxo (also known as Mojo, pronounced 'Moho') is any of the Arawakan languages spoken by the Moxo people of Northeastern Bolivia. The two extant languages of the Moxo people, Trinitario and Ignaciano, are as distinct from one another as they are from neighboring Arawakan languages. Extinct Magiana was also distinct.

Moxo languages have an active–stative syntax.

Use
The languages belong to a group of tribes that originally ranged through the upper Mamoré, extending east and west from the Guapure (Itenes) to the Beni, and are now centered in the Province of Moxos, Department of Beni, Bolivia.

Ignaciano is used in town meetings unless outsiders are present, and it is a required subject in the lower school grades, one session per week. Perhaps half of the children learn Ignaciano. By the 1980s there were fewer than 100 monolinguals, all older than 30.

Word lists

The following is a wordlist containing sample words from English to Moxos:

Magíana word list from the late 1700s published in Palau and Saiz (1989):

{| class="wikitable"
! Spanish gloss !! English gloss !! Magíana
|-
| bueno || good || shiomá
|-
| malo || bad || shiomallama
|-
| el padre || father || papá
|-
| la madre || mother || kay
|-
| el hermano || brother || nomasqui
|-
| uno || one || huestiche
|-
| dos || two || heravetá
|}

See also
 Indigenous languages of the Americas
 Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas
 Mesoamerican languages
 Language families and languages
 Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
 Indigenous peoples of the Americas
 :Category:Indigenous languages of the Americas (division into geocultural areas)
 Languages of Peru
 List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

References

External links
Ignaciano (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
Trinitario (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)

Category:Arawakan languages
Category:Languages of Bolivia