Xakriabá language

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Xakriabá
Spoken in: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Language extinction: Extinct.
Language family: Macro-Ge
 Ge-Kaingang
  Ge
   Central
    Acua
     Xakriabá
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: sai
ISO 639-3: xkr

Xakriabá (also written Chakriaba, Chikriaba, Shacriaba) is an extinct Macro-Ge language formerly spoken in Minas Gerais, Brazil by the Xakriabá people, who today speak Portuguese.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Ethnologue.

[edit] References

  • Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Xakriabá", Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition, Dallas, Tex.: SIL International.