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Contradiction

SyntaxTerror, Tue, 2022-09-13 18:34
Regarding: 
Language Use
ISO 639-3: 
shb

There is a contradiction between the sections "User Population" and "Language Use" for Brazil: the first says that "Most are monolingual" and the second that "Many also use Portuguese [por], especially children".

Editorial Action

We will remove the monolingual speaker population comment from Ninam [shb] in Brazil.

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Río Paraguá?

SyntaxTerror, Tue, 2022-09-13 08:44
Regarding: 
Location
ISO 639-3: 
shb

It seems strange that the location in Brazil is saying :

  • Roraima state: Mucajaí, Paragua, Roraima, and upper Uraricaá rivers.

Because according to what I could find, there is a rio Paraguá in Bolivia (obviously not the one cited here), and the Venezuelian río Paraguá starts in Venezuela and flows north, without entering Brazil (see https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2634262#map=7/4.816/-62.853)

Also, while the Mucajaí and Uraricaá are indeed rivers, Roraima doesn't seem to be one, but is rather the state (the name isn't even related to rivers or water, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roraima#Etymology).
The only other name I could find was Mount Roraima, but it is a high plateau/tepuy, so it seems unlikely that people live there.

Editorial Action

We will update and correct the region/location for Ninam [shb] in Brazil.

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