Xakriabá language
| Xakriabá | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Minas Gerais |
| Ethnicity | formerly Xakriabá people |
| Extinct | 1864 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xkr |
| Glottolog |
xakr1238[1] |
Xakriabá (also written Chakriaba, Chikriaba, Shacriaba) is an extinct Ge language formerly spoken in Minas Gerais, Brazil by the Xakriabá people, who today speak Portuguese.[2]
The last confirmed native speaker of the language died in 1864.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Xakriaba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Christopher Moseley (2007). Encyclopedia Of The World's Endangered Languages. London, UK: Routledge. p. 182. ISBN 9780700711970.
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