Kapinawá

The Kapinawâ are an indigenous people of Pernambuco in eastern Brazil.

Language

Kapinawâ
(unattested)
Region Pernambuco
Extinct (date missing)
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xpn
Glottolog kapi1248[1]

The Kapinawa are monolingual in Portuguese. Their original language is unattested and cannot be shown to have been distinct from neighboring languages.[2]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kapinawá". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices


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