Riverine
- Category
- Ecotome
Languages
| Language | Current population (ethnicity) | Current population (speakers) | Former population estimate | Subsistence preference | Subsistence notes | Density | Sedentism | Ecotome (riverine/interfluvial/coastal/desert/savannah/etc.) | Social hierarchies | Multilingualism (rare/occasional/common) | Contact languages | Marriage pattern | Notes | Source | Created By |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baniwa | 6000 | large | AG | dense | sedentary | Riverine | |||||||||
| ResÃgaro | 14 | medium | AG | medium | sedentary | Riverine | |||||||||
| Tariana | 1500 | medium | AG | medium | sedentary | Riverine | Linguistic exogamy | ||||||||
| Yukuna | 1000 | medium | AG | medium | sedentary | Riverine | approx 1200 persons within 60-mile radius (Fabre) | ||||||||
| Cubeo | 6150 | large | AG | medium | sedentary | Riverine | Phratric exogamy | used as lingua franca | |||||||
| Tukano | 2000 | medium | AG | medium | sedentary | Riverine | Linguistic exogamy | used as lingua franca | |||||||
| Kotiria | 1000 | medium | AG | medium | sedentary | Riverine | Linguistic exogamy | ||||||||
| Nheengatu | 8000 | large | AG | dense | sedentary | Riverine | exclusively the product of language shift |