Baenan language explained

Baenan
Extinct:	ca. 1940
Familycolor:	American
Family:	unclassified
Iso3:	none
Glotto:	baen1237
Glottorefname:	Baenan

Baenan (Baenã, Baenán, Baena) is a poorly attested language of Brazil. The last remaining speaker lived in Bahia, Brazil in 1940. The language of this speaker was associated with the Baenan language as the last members of the Baenan tribe lived in Paragaçú, Bahia, near where the language was attested.

Vocabulary

There are nine known words of Baenan:^[1]

1. eželẽ - deer
2. bakurí - venison
3. kelemés - fire
4. patarak - jaguar
5. kadašužé - black person
6. bonikro - pig
7. pititiɲga - rat
8. pitirát - monkey
9. šẽšẽ - bull

References

1. Loukotka . Čestmír . 1963 . Documents et Vocabulaires Inédits de Langues et de Dialects Sud-Américains . Unpublished documents and vocabularies of South American languages and dialects . . fr . 52 . 7–60 . 10.3406/jsa.1963.2001 . Čestmír Loukotka.