Kaimbé

Kaimbé language

Kaimbé language

Extinct unclassified language of Brazil

Kaimbé is an extinct unclassified language of eastern Brazil. The ethnic population numbered an estimated 1,100 to 1,400 in 1986. The language is scarcely attested; in 1961 one elder was able to remember a few single words mixed with Kiriri.

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

Vocabulary

Kaimbé words collected from an elderly rememberer in Massacará, Euclides da Cunha, Bahia by Wilbur Pickering in 1961:[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    Kaimbé at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Meader, Robert E. (1978). Indios do Nordeste: Levantamento sobre os remanescentes tribais do nordeste brasileiro (in Portuguese). Brasilia: SIL International.
  • Alain Fabre, 2005, Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: KAIMBÉ
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