Kambiwá language

Kambiwá
Cambioá
Spoken in Brazil
Region Pernambuco
Extinct early 20th century
Language family
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xbw

Kambiwá aka Cambioá is an extinct unclassified language of Brazil. A couple dozen words were collected from two people in the 1960s, but by that time no-one spoke the language any longer. Apart from two apparent borrowings, none of the words are relatable to known languages. Loukotka (1968) characterized the language as unclassifiable due to lack of data.

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