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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Maxakali,Monaxo,Macuni,Monocho,Caposho,Cumanasho
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Maxakalí is a Maxakalían language spoken in fourteen villages in Minas Gerais, Brazil, by fewer than a thousand people.
Maxakalí has five vowels, occurring in both oral and nasal form.
The most common word order in Maxakalí is SOV.
Maxakalí is an ergative language. The ergative case covers transitive subjects as well as indirect objects. The absolutive case covers intransitive subjects and transitive objects.
For some verbs, number is shown not by conjugation, but by suppletive verb stems. These verb stems can show number differences either for the subject or for the object.
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Maxakalí nouns readily form compounds, here are some examples:<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=3206216 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Maxakalí Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="3" width=400 height=300 lat="-15.677773" lon="-47.438365" type="map">
-15.677773, -47.438365, Brazil</googlemap>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/brazil Brazil]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/americas Americas]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>mbl</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Macro-Ge Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Maxakali Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Maxakalí Language]]</b>
 
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