Ingain language explained

Ingain
States:	Brazil
Region:	Santa Catarina
Extinct:	early 20th century?
Familycolor:	American
Fam1:	Macro-Jê
Fam2:	Jê
Fam3:	Jê of Paraná
Dia1:	Kimdá
Iso3:	none
Glotto:	inga1253
Glottorefname:	Ingain-Kimda

Ingain is an extinct Jê language of Brazil, closely related to the Southern Jê languages Kaingáng and Laklãnõ (Xokléng). Kimdá may have been a dialect. Ingain was spoken along the middle Paraná River, from the Iguatemi River in the north to the Arroyo Yabebiry in the south.^[1]

Related "South Kaingáng" languages were:^[2]

• Guayana / Wayana / Gualachí / Guanhanan - extinct language once spoken between the Uruguay River and Paraná River, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Amhó or Ivitorocái - extinct language from Riacho Ivitoracái, Paraguay. Listed as separate from the Ingain cluster by Mason (1950).^[3]

See also

• Kaingang language

Notes and References

1. Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.
2. Book: Loukotka, Čestmír . Čestmír Loukotka

   . Čestmír Loukotka . Classification of South American Indian languages . registration . UCLA Latin American Center . 1968 . Los Angeles.

3. Book: Mason, John Alden . John Alden Mason

   . John Alden Mason . 1950 . The languages of South America . Julian . Steward . Handbook of South American Indians . 6 . 157–317 . Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 . Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office.