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Scattered Indigenous Language Communities

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Linguistic geography of South America

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Distribution of indigenous languages (shaded green) in South America, focusing on the Amazon basin. Languages are primarily spoken in western Brazil, east of the Andes in Venezuela, and in a separate area in northeast Brazil near the Amazon River.

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Scattered Indigenous Language Communities

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Language Families

Scattered Indigenous Language Communities

Value

Austronesian

Austronesian and Papuan

English

English and areas of persisting indigenous languages

Papuan

26.0%
81.6%7.90%15.2%24.9%86.2%
87.5%
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