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Machinere Indian Language (Maxinéri)

Machinere is an Arawakan language of South America, spoken by 400 people in Brazil and Bolivia. The Machinere language is frequently confused with the Mashco Piro and Yine languages, because members of all three groups are generically referred to as "Piro." Machinere is a polysynthetic language with predominantly SOV word order.



˜Machinere Language Resources –

La Lengua Machineri:
    Information on Machineri including a linguistic map of Brazil. Page in Spanish.
Machineri (Yineru-tokanu):
    Fact sheet on the Machineri language.
Machinere Language:
    Demographic information on Machinere from the Ethnologue of Languages.

˜Machinere Culture and History Links –

The Manchineri of Brazil:
    Ethnography of the Machineri people, with photographs.
Indios Machineri:
    Information about the Machinere tribe in Portuguese.



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