Meanings
noun
- A member of an ethnic group living in northeastern Bolivia.
proper noun
- A language isolate spoken by these people.
An unusual property of Movima is its system of numeral classifiers.
1999, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, “Other small families and isolates”, in R. M. W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, editors, The Amazonian Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3691 more example
Thus, in these original two pages of notes on the “descriptive-object pronouns” of Movima, Judy and Judy provided enough information to establish that Movima had a nominal classification system.
2002, Colette Grinevald, “Nominal Classification in Movima”, in Mily Crevels, Simon van de Kerke, Sérgio Meira, Hein van der Voort, editors, Current Studies on South American Languages, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), →ISBN, page 218
Translations
French Movima, movima
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Spanish movima
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Cite this entry
APA
Movima. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Movima
MLA
“Movima.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Movima. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Movima,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Movima.
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