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Kapoxó language

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Kapoxó
Capoxo
Native toBrazil
Extinct(date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologcapo1236

Kapoxó (Capoxo, Kaposho) is an extinct Maxakalian language of Brazil.[1]

Documentation

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Kapoxó is documented in a word list collected in 1818,[2] which was published in Martius, 1863: 170-172.[3]

Distribution

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Kapoxó was historically spoken on the Araçuaí River in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Kumanaxó and Panhame are closely related varieties.[4]

Further reading

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  • Métraux, Alfred and Curt Nimuendajú. 1946. The Mashacalí, Patashó, and Malalí Linguistic Families. In Julian H. Steward (ed.), The Marginal Tribes, 541-545. Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology.

References

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  1. ^ Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.
  2. ^ Ramirez, H., Vegini, V., & França, M. C. V. de. (2015). Koropó, puri, kamakã e outras línguas do Leste Brasileiro. LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 15(2), 223 - 277. doi:10.20396/liames.v15i2.8642302
  3. ^ Martius, Karl Friedrich Philip von. 1863. Glossaria linguarum Brasiliensium: glossarios de diversas lingoas e dialectos, que fallao os Indios no imperio do Brazil. Erlangen: Druck von Jange.
  4. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.