Cinta Larga is a
Tupian
The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani.
Homeland and ''urheimat''
Rodrigues (2007) considers the Proto-Tupian urheimat to be somewhere between ...
dialect cluster
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varie ...
of
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
, the largest language of the
Monde branch.
According to Moore (2005), Arara do Rio Guariba (''Guariba River Arara''), spoken in the northern part of Aripuanã Indigenous Park, is closely related to the Cinta Larga dialect cluster, and also shares some features with
Suruí.
[Moore, Denny. 2005]
Classificação interna da família lingüística Mondé
''Estudos Lingüísticos'' 34: 515-520.
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26 words were collected by Hargreaves in 2001. It remains unclassified due to the lack of data.
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
References
Tupian languages
Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area
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