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Name: Terena

Alternate Names: Tereno; Etelena; Terêna; Guaná; Chané; Kinikinao

Spoken in: Brazil

Number of speakers: 15,000 (1991 SIL). Ethnic population: 16,000 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 19000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 15000 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: ter

Code Authority: ISO 639-3

Code Standard: SIL

Families: Maipurean (Maipuran, Arawakan)

Parent Subgroup: Southern Outlier; Southern Outlier Branch (soum)

Child Dialects: Guaná; Equiniquinao; Kinihinao; Guana; Kinikinao; Chuala; Chana; East Paraná; Equinao (gqn) Kinikanao (ter-kin) Etelena; Terena (ter-ete) Chané; Chaná (caj)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Severely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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