Mekéns language
| Mekens | |
|---|---|
| Sakirabiá | |
| Region | Brazil |
| Ethnicity | 100 (2010)[1] |
Native speakers | 40 (2010)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
skf |
| Glottolog |
saki1248[2] |
Mekéns (Mekem), or Amniapé,[3] is a nearly extinct Tupian language of the state of Rondônia, in the Amazon region of Brazil.
There are three groups of Mekens speakers:[1]
- Sakïrabiát (Sakirabiá, Sakiráp)
- Koaratira (Guaratira, a.k.a. Kanoé – not the same as the Kanoé language)
- Koarategayat (Guaratégaya, Guarategaja, Warategáya)
References
- 1 2 3 Wolf Dietrich, "O tronco tupi e as suas famílias de línguas. Classificação e esboço tipológico". In Volker Noll & Wolf Dietrich, eds., O português e o tupi no Brasil, São Paulo, 2010.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Sakirabia". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Wanda Hanke, Morris Swadesh, & Aryon Rodrigues, ca. 1950 [2011], Notas de fonologia Mekéns
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