Kamakan language

The Kamakã language (Kamakan), or Ezeshio, is an extinct language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Jê languages of Brazil. Dialects included Kotoxó and Mongoyó/Mangaló.

Kamakã
Ezeshio
Native toBrazil
RegionBahia
Extinctfirst half 20th century
Dialects
  • Kamakã
  • Kotoxó
  • Mongoyó/Mangaló
Language codes
ISO 639-3vkm
Glottologkama1372  Kamakan[1]
coto1237  Cotoxo[2]

Classification

The Kamakã 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]

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gollark: Can you somehow block all the particularly petition-sendy ones without notifying them?
gollark: Just have your thing ignore any message containing "petition" or something.
gollark: It's a shame there's no ability in most stuff to have keyword filters.
gollark: That whole "us vs them" "if you're not unconditionally accepting of this you are LITERALLY EVIL" thing some groups appear to have is very irritating.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kamakan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cotoxo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 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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