Jaikó language

Jaikó (Jeicó, Jeikó, Yeico, Geico, Eyco) is an extinct language of southeastern Piauí, Brazil.

Jaikó
Native toBrazil
RegionJaicós, southeastern Piauí
Extinct19th century
Macro-Jê ?
  • Jaikó
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologgeic1236[1]

Classification

Based on a fragmentary word list from the 19th century in von Martius (1867, v. 2, p. 143),[2] it appears to be a Je language.

However, Ramirez et al. (2015: 260–261) doubts the accuracy of von Martius' list, and notes that the word list may actually consist of a wide mixture of languages spoken in Piauí, including from Pimenteira (Cariban) and Masakará (Kamakã).[3] Nevertheless, Nikulin (2020) still finds convincing evidence that Jaikó was a Macro-Jê language, but does not consider it to be within the Jê branch.[4]

Distribution

Jaikó was spoken around the aldeia of Cajueiro, located in what is now southeastern Piauí state. The name is derived from the town of Jaicós, which was located in the Jaikó people's territory around the Canindé River and Gurgueia River.[4]

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Geico". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philip. 1867. Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen. (Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens, II.) Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer.
  3. Ramirez, H., Vegini, V., & França, M. C. V. de. (2015). Koropó, puri, kamakã e outras línguas do Leste Brasileiro. LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 15(2), 223 - 277. doi:10.20396/liames.v15i2.8642302
  4. Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.


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