Tenetehara language

Tenetehára
Tenetehára
Guajajara
Native to	Brazil
Region	Maranhão
Ethnicity	19,500 Guajajara (2006), 820 Tembé (1999), 60 Turiwara (1998)
Native speakers	13,000 (2006)
Language family	Tupian Tupí–Guaraní Tenetehara branch Tenetehára; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; gub – Guajajara; tqb – Tembé
Glottolog	temb1276
ELP	Guajajára; Tembé;

Tenetehára is a Tupi–Guarani language spoken in the state of Maranhão in Brazil. Sociolinguistically, it is two languages, each spoken by the Guajajara and the Tembé people, though these are mutually intelligible. Tembé was spoken by less than a quarter of its ethnic population of 820 in 2000; Guajajara, on the other hand, is more robust, being spoken by two-thirds of its 20,000 people.

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