Kamakan language

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Kamakã
Ezeshio
Native to Brazil
Region Bahia
Extinct first half 20th century
Dialects
Kamakã
Kotoxó
Mongoyó/Mangaló
Language codes
ISO 639-3 vkm
Glottolog kama1372  (Kamakan)[1]
coto1237  (Cotoxo)[2]

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.

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

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  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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