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Kamakã
Ezeshio
Native toBrazil
RegionBahia
Extinctby 1950s
Language familyMacro-Jê
Dialects
  • Kamakã
  • Kotoxó
  • Mongoyó/Mangaló
Language codes
ISO 639-3vkm
Glottologkama1372  Kamakan

The Kamakã language (Kamakan), or Ezeshio, is an extinct language of a small family, belonging to the Macro-Jê languages of Brazil. Kotoxó and Mongoyó/Mangaló are sometimes included as dialects.

Classification

Kamakã is a Macro-Jê language. It was spoken by several groups of indigenous peoples who lived in Bahia, including the Kamakã, Mongoyó, Menién, Kotoxó and Masakará.

Phonology

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
Close-mid e ə o õ
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a ã
  • /ə/ can also be realized as a back vowel sound .
Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop p t k
Fricative f s ʃ x h
Nasal m n ɲ
Flap ɾ
Glide j w
  • /ɾ/ can be in free variation with a fricative and a lateral .
  • /n/ is heard as when preceding /k/.

References

  1. Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.
  2. Rivail Ribeiro et van der Voort 2010, p. 547.
  3. Grahl, João A. P. (2009). Kamakã em Prolog: Possibilidades de análise de uma língua de tradição oral morta. Universidade Federal do Paraná.

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.
Languages of Brazil
Official language
Regional languages
Indigenous
languages
Arawakan
Arawan
Cariban
Panoan
Macro-Jê
Nadahup
Tupian
Chapacuran
Tukanoan
Nambikwaran
Others
Interlanguages
Sign languages
Non-official
Macro-Jê languages
Cerrado
Goyaz
Panará
Northern
Timbira
Central (Akuwẽ)
Jê of Paraná
Southern
Unclassified
Trans–São Francisco
Krenák
Maxakalían
Kamakã
Western
Mato Grosso
Jabutian
Karajá
Borôro ?
Karirí ?
Purian ?
Italics indicate extinct languages


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