Masakará language explained

Masakará
Extinct:	?
Familycolor:	American
Iso3:	none
Linglist:	qlz
Glotto:	masa1311
Glottorefname:	Masacara

Masakará is an extinct language related to Kamakã. It is one of the Macro-Jê languages of Brazil.^[1] It was once spoken south of the city of Juazeiro and at the old mission of Saco dos Morcegos (present-day Mirandela, Banzaê, near Ribeira do Pombal, Bahia State).^[2]

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

Martins (2007)^[3] classifies Masakará as the most divergent of the Kamakã languages.

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. Martins, Andérbio Márcio Silva. 2007. Revisão da Família Lingüística Kamakã Proposta por Chestmir Loukotka. MA thesis, University of Brasília.