Kwaza language

Kwaza language

Infobox Language
name=Kwaza
region=Brazil
speakers=25 (as of 1998)
iso2=sai
lc1=xwa
ld1=tentative [http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/chg_detail.asp?id=2006-020]
ll1=none
familycolor=American
fam1=Unclassified.

Kwaza (also written Kwazá or Koaiá) is an endangered, unclassified language spoken by the Kwaza people of Brazil. As of 1998 there were only 25 known speakers, though over half of these were children.

Further reading

*cite book |last=van der Voort |first=Hein |year=2004 |title=A Grammar of Kwaza |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter
*cite web |last=van der Voort |first=Hein |title=Kwazá |work=Encyclopedia of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil |year=1998 |month=November |url=http://socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/kwaza/kwaza.shtm


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