Kamakan language
| Kamakã | |
|---|---|
| Ezeshio | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Bahia |
| Extinct | first half 20th century |
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Macro-Gê
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| Dialects |
Kamakã
Kotoxó
Mongoyó/Mangaló
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
vkm |
| Glottolog |
kama1372 (Kamakan)[1]coto1237 (Cotoxo)[2] |
The Kamakã language (Kamakan), or Ezeshio, is an extinct language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Gê languages of Brazil. Dialects included Kotoxó and Mongoyó/Mangaló.
Classification
The Kamaka is a subset of the entire macro-Jê. The spoken language was spoken by several groups of Native Americans who lived in the region of Bahia: the Kamaka, Mongoyó, Menién, Kotoxó and Masakará.[3]
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kamakan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cotoxo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Rivail Ribeiro et van der Voort 2010, p. 547.
Sources
- Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro, Hein van der Voort, Nimuendajú Was Right : The Inclusion of the Jabuti Language Family in the Macro-Jê Stock, International Journal of American Linguistics, 76:4, pp. 517-570, 2010.
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