South America · ISO 639-3 cag · Glottocode niva1238
Nivaclé
Nivaclé is attested in 3 listed source countries; Glottolog classifies the language in the Mataguayan family and gives it shifting status.
- Language family
- Mataguayan
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- shifting
- Macroarea
- South America
- Source country codes
- AR · BO · PY
- Reference point
- -22.856, -61.761
Open research question
How do speakers of Nivaclé describe their linguistic boundaries, relationships to place, and priorities for documentation or revitalisation?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.