Mojos are a pair of Maipurean languages spoken by the Moxos people

Moxos people

The Moxos, also known as the Mojos, are an indigenous people living around the head-waters of the Madeira River in northern Bolivia, particularly on both banks of the Mamore River. They submitted to Inca domination, but in 1564 gallantly repulsed the Spaniards. A century later, however, the Jesuits...

 of Northeastern Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. The two Mojo 'dialects', Trinitario and Ignaciano, are as distinct from one another as they are from neighboring Maipurean languages.

Mojos

The language belongs to a group of tribes that originally ranged through the upper Mamoré

Mamoré

The Mamoré is a large river in Bolivia and Brazil, which unites with the Beni to form the Madeira, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon. It rises on the northern slope of the Sierra de Cochabamba, east of the city of Cochabamba, and is known as the Chimoré down to its junction with the...

, extending east and west from the Guapure (Itenes) to the Beni

Beni

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, and are now centered in the Province of Moxos

Moxos Province

Moxos is a province in the Beni Department, Bolivia. It is named after the Moxos savanna.The province consists of one municipality, San Ignacio de Moxos Municipality, which is identical to the province...

, Department of Beni, Bolivia.

Ignaciano is used in town meetings unless outsiders are present, and it is a required subject in the lower school grades, one session per week. Perhaps half of the children learn Ignaciano. By the 1980s there were fewer than 100 monolinguals, all older than 30.

Population 4,500 (2000 SIL). Ethnic population: 20,805 with Trinitario (2000 W. Adelaar).

Region South central Beni.

Population 5,500 (2000 SIL). Ethnic population: 20,805 with Ignaciano (2000 W. Adelaar).

Region South central Beni.

Dialects Loreto (Loretano), Javierano.

Classification Arawakan, Maipuran, Southern Maipuran, Bolivia-Parana

Word Set

English/Mojo Word Set

One – Ikapia

Two – Apisá

Three – Impúse

Man – Ehiro

Woman – Eseno

Sun – Sáche

Water – Uni

Fire – Yuku

Head – Nuxuti

Hand – Nubupe

Corn – Suru

See also

• Indigenous languages of the Americas
  Indigenous languages of the Americas
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• Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas
  Classification schemes for indigenous languages of the Americas
  This article is a list of different language classification proposals developed for indigenous languages of the Americas. The article is divided into North, Central, and South America sections; however, the classifications do not always neatly correspond to these continent divisions.-Gallatin...
  
  
• Mesoamerican languages
  Mesoamerican languages
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• Language families and languages
• Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
  Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
  Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas is based upon cultural regions, geography, and linguistics. Anthropologists have named various cultural regions, with fluid boundaries, that are generally agreed upon with some variation...
  
  
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas
  Indigenous peoples of the Americas
  The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
  
  

:Category:Indigenous languages of the Americas (division into geocultural areas)

• Languages of Peru
  Languages of Peru
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• List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin