Indigenous Groups
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Juma
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Munduruku
Nadëb
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Yuhup
Maxakali
Basic Data
Name: Maxakali
Alternative Names: Caposho, Cumanasho, Macuni, Monaxo, Monocho
Language Classification: Macro-Gê, Maxakali
Population: 728 (1994 SIL)
Location: Minas Gerais, 100 miles inland from coast, 14
villages
Popovich, Harold, 1984, The Sun and the Moon, a Maxakali Text (217 kB), Estudos sobre Línguas e Culturas Indígenas: 29-59.
Popovich, A. Harold, and Frances B. Popovich, 2005, Maxakalí - English Dictionary (406 kB), Sociedade Internacional de Lingüística, Cuiabá, MT.
Popovich, Frances Blok, 1994, A Organizição Social dos Maxakali (in Portuguese, 3426 kB), Master's dissertation, University of Texas at Arlington.
http://www.sil.org/americas/brasil/langpage/englmxpg.htm
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