Acroá language explained

Acroá
States:Brazil
Region:Bahia
Ethnicity:Acroá
Extinct:after 1831
Ref:[1]
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Macro-Jê
Fam2:
Fam3:Cerrado
Fam4:Akuwẽ (Central Jê)
Iso3:acs
Glotto:acro1239
Glottorefname:Acroá

Acroá is an extinct Akuwẽ (Central Jê) language (, Macro-Jê) of Brazil. It was spoken by the Acroá people around the headwaters of the Parnaíba and of the Paranaíba in Bahia, who were later settled in the missions of São José do Duro (Formiga) and in São José de Mossâmedes. The language went extinct before it could be documented; it is only known through a short wordlist collected by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.[2] Due to an account of Martius' travels appearing in three large volumes from 1823 to 1831, the language probably went extinct sometime around then. Acroá is also known as Akroá, Acroamirim, Coroá and Koroá.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Acroá Ethnologue Free . 2023-10-19 . Ethnologue (Free All) . en.
  2. Nikulin . Andrey . 2020 . Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo . Ph.D. dissertation . Brasília . Universidade de Brasília.
  3. Web site: Akroá. LINGUIST List. 4 November 2024. 26 August 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120826012525/http://multitree.org/codes/acs.html.