Sabujá language explained

Sabujá
Nativename:Pedra Branca
Familycolor:American
Extinct:?
Iso3:none
Iso3comment:included in [kzw]
Glotto:sabu1246
Glottorefname:Sabujá

Sabujá (Sapoya), or Pedra Branca, is an extinct Karirian language of northeastern Bahia, Brazil.[1] It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single Kariri language.

It is documented in a word list by von Martius (1867).[2]

Notes and References

  1. 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.
  2. von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philip. 1867. Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen. (Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens, II.) Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer.