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Terêna

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3: ter

Population	15,000 (1991 SIL). Ethnic population: 16,000.
Region	Mato Grosso do Sul. 20 villages and 2 cities.
Language map	Brazil, reference number 166
Alternate names	Etelena, Tereno
Classification	Arawakan, Maipuran, Southern Maipuran, Bolivia-Parana
Language use	Many also use some Portuguese [por].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 20%. Literacy rate in L2: 80%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1994.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	VOS.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Bendor-Samuel, John T. 1960. "Some problems of segmentation in the phonological analysis of Tereno."

Bendor-Samuel, John T. 1963. "A structure-function description of Terena phrases."

Bendor-Samuel, John T. 1963. "Stress in Terena."

Bendor-Samuel, John T. 1966. "Some prosodic features in Terena."

Butler, Nancy E. 1973. "Teaching syllables in Terena."

Butler, Nancy E. 1977. "Derivação verbal na língua terêna."

Butler, Nancy E. 1978. Modo, extensão temporal, tempo verbal e relevância contrastiva na língua terêna.  

Butler, Nancy Evelyn. Available: 2003; Created: 2003. The multiple functions of the definite article in Terena.  

Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1982. "Arawakan (Brazil) morphosyntax."

Ekdahl, Muriel and Joseph E. Grimes. 1964. "Terena verb inflection."

Ekdahl, Muriel and Nancy E. Butler. 1979. Aprenda terêna, vol. 1.

Ekdahl, Muriel. 1965. "Referents in Terêna."

Kietzman, Dale W. n.d.. "Tendências de ordem lexical de aculturação lingüística em Terêna."