spaces of cultural knowledge exchange among the Mamaindê for example by valorizing the tradition of hand crafted utensils (Curriculo Lattes). Varieties Among the Nambikwaran languages, at least Northern (Mamainde), Southern (Nambikwara), and Sabane are mutually unintelligible. Mamainde, however, is a dialect cluster, and its varieties are sometimes considered distinct languages. The following distinctions are made by Eberhard (2009). Population figures are those of Ethnologue 16, dated 2007: Mamaindê proper (including Nagarotê, 330 speakers) Latundê (20) Lakondê (1) Tawaindê (or Da’wan’du; unattested and speakers unknown) Yalakalore (extinct and unattested) Yalapmunde (Alapmunte; extinct and unattested) Yelelihre is another unattested Nambikwaran variety. Distribution list geographic locations for the following 3 Northern Nambikuara language varieties. The Mamaindê (population: 200) live in Capitão Pedro, Mato Grosso, a village located near Vilhena, Rondônia. The Negarotê (population: 100) live in a main village near the town of Comodoro, Mato Grosso, as well as another village close to the town of Nova Alvorada, Mato Grosso. The Latundê (population: 20) live in the Tubarão-Latundê reserve, located about 150 kilometres west of Vilhena, Rondônia. The reserve has 3 villages. Rio do Ouro: mostly ethnic Aikanã Gleba: contains ethnic Aikanã, Kwazá, and Latundê Barroso: mostly ethnic Latundê Phonology The following description is based on Mamaindê proper. Vowels Mamaindê has 20 vowels: Consonants Mamaindê has 33 consonants: Morphology The aspects of morphology for Mamaindê include morphological typology, morphological processes and grammatical categories. Under the topic of morphological typology, Mamaindê is highly polysynthetic and an agglutinative language. Under the topic of morphological processes, reduplication is a highly present process occurring in various environments as well as in many forms (for example suffixed reduplication, prefixed reduplication and exceptional cases). Another morphological process in Mamaindê is head-marking in which possession is marked "on the head of the noun phrase (the possessed) and not on the dependent (the possessor)". The grammatical categories in Mamaindê consist of types of nouns, types of verbs, adverbs, conjunctions and interjections. Pronouns Mamaindê includes three person pronouns [ta̰i], [wa̰i] and [ha̰i]; first, second and third person respectively. These are used to refer to all basic grammatical relations including subject, object (as exemplified in a) and indirect objects (as exemplified in b). These pronouns can also be modified by noun classifiers (/-soʔka/), gender markers, plural markers, demonstrative markers and final nominal suffixes (/-ãni/), as exemplified in (b), as no distinct set of pronouns designate these differences. Noun Classifiers Without forming an actual