Cavineña language
E1044177
The Cavineña language is an indigenous Tacanan language spoken by the Cavineña people of northern Bolivia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cavineña language canonical | 3 |
| Iténez language | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13453125 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cavineña language Context triple: [Pando Department, hasMinorityLanguage, Cavineña language]
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A.
Carijona language
The Carijona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Carijona people of Colombia, now highly endangered with only a small number of elderly speakers remaining.
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B.
Huambisa language
The Huambisa language is an indigenous Jivaroan language spoken by the Huambisa (Wampis) people of the northern Peruvian Amazon.
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C.
Gabrielino language
The Gabrielino language, also known as Tongva, is an Uto-Aztecan Indigenous language historically spoken by the Tongva people of the Los Angeles Basin and Southern Channel Islands in California.
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D.
Ignaciano language
The Ignaciano language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Ignaciano people of Bolivia’s Beni region, closely related to other Moxo (Mojeño) varieties.
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E.
Cacán language
The Cacán language was an extinct indigenous tongue once spoken by the Diaguita-Calchaquí peoples of northwestern Argentina and northern Chile.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cavineña language Target entity description: The Cavineña language is an indigenous Tacanan language spoken by the Cavineña people of northern Bolivia.
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A.
Carijona language
The Carijona language is an indigenous Cariban language spoken by the Carijona people of Colombia, now highly endangered with only a small number of elderly speakers remaining.
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B.
Huambisa language
The Huambisa language is an indigenous Jivaroan language spoken by the Huambisa (Wampis) people of the northern Peruvian Amazon.
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C.
Gabrielino language
The Gabrielino language, also known as Tongva, is an Uto-Aztecan Indigenous language historically spoken by the Tongva people of the Los Angeles Basin and Southern Channel Islands in California.
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D.
Ignaciano language
The Ignaciano language is an Arawakan language spoken by the Ignaciano people of Bolivia’s Beni region, closely related to other Moxo (Mojeño) varieties.
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E.
Cacán language
The Cacán language was an extinct indigenous tongue once spoken by the Diaguita-Calchaquí peoples of northwestern Argentina and northern Chile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tacanan language
ⓘ
indigenous language ⓘ language ⓘ |
| belongsToLanguageGroup |
Amazonian languages
ⓘ
indigenous languages of Bolivia ⓘ |
| continent | South America ⓘ |
| country | Bolivia ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus | vulnerable ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Cavineña people
ⓘ
linked to:
Cavineño people
|
| geneticRelation |
related to Araona language
ⓘ
related to Ese Ejja language ⓘ related to Reyesano language ⓘ related to Tacana language ⓘ |
| hasAcademicStudy | described in grammars and dictionaries ⓘ |
| hasClauseStructure | clause-chaining constructions ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | cavi1250 ⓘ |
| hasGlottologName |
Cavinena
ⓘ
linked to:
Cayuvava
|
| hasLanguagePolicyContext | minority language in Bolivia ⓘ |
| hasLexicalBorrowingFrom | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticTypology |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ |
| hasMorphosyntacticFeature |
case marking on noun phrases
ⓘ
complex system of enclitics ⓘ rich verbal morphology ⓘ |
| hasNotablePublication | A Grammar of Cavineña ⓘ |
| hasNotableResearcher | Antoine Guillaume NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | several hundred speakers ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive nasalization
ⓘ
small phoneme inventory ⓘ |
| hasPreservationEffort | documented by linguists for revitalization ⓘ |
| hasPronounSystem | person and number distinctions ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticSituation | bilingualism with Spanish is common among speakers ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | flexible word order ⓘ |
| isMinorityLanguageIn | Bolivia ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | cav ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Tacanan languages ⓘ |
| languageStatus | endangered language ⓘ |
| name | Cavineña ⓘ |
| region |
Amazonian lowlands of Bolivia
ⓘ
linked to:
Bolivian Amazon
|
| spokenBy |
Cavineña people
ⓘ
linked to:
Cavineño people
|
| spokenIn |
Bolivia
ⓘ
northern Bolivia ⓘ |
| usedIn |
daily communication within Cavineña communities
ⓘ
traditional oral narratives ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Cavineña language Description of subject: The Cavineña language is an indigenous Tacanan language spoken by the Cavineña people of northern Bolivia.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cavineña language