Guató | |
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Native to | Brazil |
Region | Mato Grosso |
Ethnicity | 370 Guató people (2008) |
Native speakers
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4 (2006) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | guat1253 |
Guató is a possible language isolate spoken by 1% of the Guató people of Brazil. Kaufman (1990) provisionally classified it as a branch of the Macro-Jê languages, but no evidence for this was found by Eduardo Ribeiro.
The Guato vowel system, like that of Macro-Jê languages, collapses a three-way distinction of height in oral vowels to two in nasal vowels.