Akuntsu language

Akuntsu is a Tupian language of Brazil.[3] Peaceful contact with the Akuntsu people was only made in 1995; they had been massacred by cattle ranchers in the 1980s. The Akuntsu language is spoken only by members of the tribe and not fully understood by any outsider.[4]

Akuntsu
Native toBrazil
EthnicityAkuntsu people
Native speakers
4 (2016)[1]
Tupian
  • Tuparí
    • Akuntsu
Language codes
ISO 639-3aqz
Glottologakun1241[2]

It is considered unlikely that the Akuntsu language or culture will survive following the deaths of the tribe's remaining members.[5] For this reason several observers have described the tribe as the victims of genocide.[6] The neighbouring Kanoê have been similarly reduced in number through contact with settlers,[7] as were the people of a man recently encountered living alone in the Igarapé Omerê reserve who is apparently the sole survivor of his tribe.[8][9]

References
  1. Maraña, Lati (6 June 2016). "Leader and last ever shaman of tiny Amazon tribe dies in Brazil". Survival International.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Akuntsu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Aragon (2004)
  4. Watson, Fiona (13 October 2009). "We're watching an extinction in a lifetime". The Independent. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  5. "Akuntsu: The future". Survival International. Archived from the original on 21 December 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  6. Vincent Carelli (Director) (2009). Corumbiara: They Shoot Indians, Don't They? (in Portuguese). Vídeo nas Aldeias.
  7. Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). "Introduction > Kanoê". Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  8. Survival International (9 December 2009). "Last survivor of uncontacted Amazon tribe attacked". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
  9. Strange, Hannah (11 December 2009). "'Man in the Hole', lone survivor of Amazon tribe massacre, escapes ranchers' bullets". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 8 March 2011.

Further reading
  • Aragon, Carolina Coelho (2014). A grammar of Akuntsú, a Tupían language (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa. hdl:10125/101050.


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