Kamakan language

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

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kamakan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Cotoxo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Rivail Ribeiro et van der Voort 2010, p. 547.

Sources


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