Kapoxó language explained
| Kapoxó |
| Also Known As: | Capoxo |
| States: | Brazil |
| Extinct: | ? |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Macro-Jê |
| Fam2: | Maxakalían |
| Iso3: | none |
| Glotto: | capo1236 |
| Glottorefname: | Capoxo |
Kapoxó (Capoxo, Kaposho) is an extinct Maxakalian language of Brazil.[1]
Documentation
Kapoxó is documented in a word list collected in 1818,[2] which was published in Martius, 1863: 170-172.[3]
Distribution
Kapoxó was historically spoken on the Araçuaí River in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Kumanaxó and Panhame are closely related varieties.[4]
Further reading
- 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.
Notes and References
- Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.
- 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.
- 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.
- Book: Loukotka, Čestmír . Čestmír Loukotka . Classification of South American Indian languages . registration . UCLA Latin American Center . 1968 . Los Angeles.
