Masakará language

Masakará
Native toBrazil
RegionBahia
Extinct(date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qlz
Glottologmasa1311

Masakará is an extinct language related to Kamakã. It is one of the Macro-Jê languages of Brazil.[1] It was once spoken south of the city of Juazeiro and at the old mission of Saco dos Morcegos (present-day Mirandela, Banzaê, near Ribeira do Pombal, Bahia State).[2]

The district of Massacará in Euclides da Cunha, Bahia is named after the tribe.

Martins (2007)[3] classifies Masakará as the most divergent of the Kamakã languages.

References

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  1. ^ Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.
  2. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  3. ^ Martins, Andérbio Márcio Silva. 2007. Revisão da Família Lingüística Kamakã Proposta por Chestmir Loukotka. MA thesis, University of Brasília.