Trans-Araguaia | |
Region: | Pará, Mato Grosso |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Macro-Jê |
Fam2: | Jê |
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.