Tembé

TQB

shifting

Alternate Names: Tenetehara

Dialects: None known. Intelligible with Guajajára ,.

Genealogy:

Tupian
Tupí-Guaraní
Tenetehara
Tenetehara

Demographics: 150 (2000 SIL). Ethnic population: 880 (Crevels 2007). Tembé: 820 (1999), Turiwara: 60 (1998).

Language Development: NT: 2008.

Writing System: Latin

Nation of Origin: Brazil

Other Comments: Assimilated the closely related Turiwara , (Crevels 2007).