Kaimbé language

Kaimbé
Native to Brazil
Region Bahía
Extinct early 20th century
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xai
Glottolog kaim1235[1]

Kaimbé is an extinct unclassified language of eastern Brazil. The ethnic population numbered an estimated 1,100 to 1,400 in 1986. The language is scarcely attested; in 1961 one elder was able to remember a few single words mixed with Kiriri.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kaimbé". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.