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Kamakã languages
The Kamakã languages are a small family of extinct Macro-Jê languages of Bahía, northeastern Brazil. The attested Kamakã languages are:
Varieties
Loukotka (1968)
Below is a full list of Kamakã languages and dialects listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.
Mason (1950)
Camacán (Kamakán) varieties listed by Mason (1950):
Classification
Martins (2007)
Internal classification of the Kamakã languages by Martins (2007): Masakará is the most divergent language.
Ramirez (2015)
Internal classification of the Kamakã languages according to Ramirez, et al. (2015):
Nikulin (2020)
Internal classification of the Kamakã languages according to Nikulin (2020):
Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items. ! gloss !! Kamakan !! Mangaló !! Menien !! Kutasho !! Masacará ! head ! eye ! tooth ! foot ! water ! fire ! star ! maize ! jaguar ! black
Proto-language
Proto-Kamakã reconstructions by Martins (2007): ! Portuguese gloss (original) !! English gloss (translated) !! Proto-Kamakã
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