Xakriabá language

Xakriabá language
Xakriabá
Spoken in Brazil
Region Minas Gerais
Ethnicity 4,640 (1995)
Extinct ?
Language family
Macro-Ge
  • Ge
    • Central
      • Acua
        • Xakriabá
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xkr

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.[1]

The last confirmed native speaker of the language died in 1864.

Notes

  1. ^ Ethnologue.

References

  • Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.) (2005). "Xakriabá". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Fifteenth edition ed.). Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. 



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