Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area

The Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area is a linguistic area that includes over a dozen South American language families and isolates of the Mamoré–Guaporé region of eastern lowland Bolivia (the Llanos de Moxos and Chiquitania regions) and Brazil (Rondônia[1] and Mato Grosso states).

[2] Crevels and van der Voort (2008) propose a Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area in eastern lowland Bolivia (in Beni Department and Santa Cruz Department) and Rondônia and northwestern Mato Grosso, Brazil.

In Bolivia, many of the languages were historically spoken at the Jesuit Missions of Moxos and also the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos.

Language families and branches in the linguistic area are as follows.

[3] Tupian branches in the Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area are: Macro-Jê branches in the Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area are: Language isolates in the linguistic area are: Areal features include:[3] Pieter Muysken et al. (2014) also performed a detailed statistical analysis of the Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area.