How Long to Read The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia

How Long Does it Take to Read The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 51 minutes to read The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia by R.M.W. Dixon

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundred people. It has only two open lexical classes, noun and verb, and a closed adjective class with fourteen members which can only modify a noun. Verbs have a complex structure with three prefix and some twenty-five suffix slots. There is an eleven-term tense-modal system with an evidentiality contrast (eyewitness/non-eyewitness) in thethree past tenses. Of the two genders, feminine and masculine, feminine is unmarked. There are at least eight types...

How long is The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia?

The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia by R.M.W. Dixon is 636 pages long, and a total of 162,816 words.

This makes it 215% the length of the average book. It also has 199% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 49 minutes to read The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia aloud.

What Reading Level is The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia?

The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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