Xukuru language

Xukuru
Native to Brazil
Region Pernambuco
Ethnicity 6,400 Xukuru people (1999)[1]
Extinct (date missing)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xoo
Glottolog xuku1239[3]

Xukuru (Xucuru, Shukurú) is an extinct and poorly attested language of Brazil. It is also known as Kirirí, Kirirí-Xokó, Ichikile. It is only known from a few words elicited from an elder in 1961. Loukotka (1968) says it forms a small family with Paratió.

Other languages with this name

Xukuru-Kariri is a variety of Xokó, which may be a Kariri language. The name Kiriri is shared by Dzubukuá, another Kariri language, and by Katembri. The name Kiriri-Xoko is shared with yet another variety of Xokó.

References

  1. Xukurú at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Xukuru at Ethnologue (12th ed., 1992).
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Xukurú". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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