Kamakan language
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.
Kamakã | |
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Ezeshio | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Bahia |
Extinct | first half 20th century |
Macro-Gê
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | vkm |
Glottolog | kama1372 Kamakan[1]coto1237 Cotoxo[2] |
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
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kamakan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cotoxo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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