Trans-Araguaia languages explained

Trans-Araguaia
Region:Pará, Mato Grosso
Familycolor:American
Fam1:Macro-Jê
Fam2:
Fam3:Cerrado
Fam4:Jê of Goyaz
Fam5:Northern Jê
Fam6:Trans-Tocantins
Child1:Mẽbêngôkre
Child2:Tapajós (Kĩsêdjê, Tapayúna)
Glotto:none

The Trans-Araguaia languages are a proposed subgroup of the Northern Jê languages, which comprises three languages spoken to the west of the Araguaia River: Mẽbêngôkre, Kĩsêdjê, and Tapayúna.[1] It is subdivided in a binary manner into Mẽbêngôkre and the Tapajós subbranch, which comprises Kĩsêdjê and Tapayúna. Together with Apinajé, the Trans-Araguaia languages make up the Trans-Tocantins branch of Northern Jê.

Notes and References

  1. Nikulin . Andrey . 2020 . Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo . Ph.D. dissertation . Brasília . Universidade de Brasília.