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Xavante|ʃəˈvæntiː|
Also Chavante, Shavante.
[a. Port., of uncertain origin.]
a. (A member of) any of several groups of semi-nomadic Indians of the interior savanna of central and east-central Brazil, esp. the Akwẽ-Xavante.
b. The Ge language of the Akwẽ-Xavante, or the language of any group called Xavante. Also attrib. as adj.
1904H. von Ihering Anthropol. State S. Paulo, Brazil 10 Of all the Indians of S. Paulo, the Chavantes are the darkest, and the most backward. 1927K. G. Grubb Lowland Indians Amazonia vii. 121 The Chavante, irreconcilably hostile, occupy the River Manso or das Mortes. 1950J. B. d'Avila in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians VI. 76 To the same [sc. Ge] group belong the Shavante, between the Araguaya and Tocantins Rivers;..the Sherente and Craho. 1950J. A. Mason in Ibid. 299 Four groups of Southern Brazil of very different linguistic affinities are known to the Brazilian natives by the name Chavanté... Three of them..form small independent (provisionally) families; the fourth is a Ge language. 1971J. S. Weiner Man's Natural Hist. v. 221 ‘Micro⁓evolution’ comparable to that found in the Xavante villages obtains in other South American aboriginal tribes. Ibid. 222 The extraordinary contrast between the high standard of physical fitness and stamina of the young Xavante and his later health and life expectation. 1978Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 18 June 33 (caption) Xavante Indians in their village close to the River of the Dead..held the white off until recently. 1983Word XXXIV. 61 A number of Brazilian Amazon languages (e.g., Apuriña, Urubú, Xavante, and Nadeb) also rely on both pragmatic and syntactic considerations in determining linear order. |