Kapinawá

The Kapinawâ are an indigenous people of Pernambuco in eastern Brazil.

Language

Kapinawâ
(unattested)
Region Pernambuco
Extinct (date missing)
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xpn
Glottolog kapi1248[1]

The Kapinawa are monolingual in Portuguese. Their original language is unattested and cannot be shown to have been distinct from neighboring languages.[2]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kapinawá". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  • Alain Fabre, 2005, Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: KAPINAWÂ.


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