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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Brazil > Avá-Canoeiro

Avá-Canoeiro

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3avv

Population  40 (1998 ISA).
Region  Goiás, Island of Bananal, and upper Tocantins River valley.
Language map  Brazil, reference number 162
Alternate names   Abá, Avá, Awana, Canoa, Canoe, Canoeiros
Classification  Tupi, Tupi-Guarani, Subgroup IV
Language use  All are monolingual.
Comments  Seminomadic. Traditional religion. Nearly extinct.