Katembri (''Catrimbi''
ic ''Kariri de Mirandela, Mirandela'') was a divergent language of
Bahia
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, northeastern Brazil that appears to be distantly related to
Taruma (Kaufman 1990).
It is known only from about 100 words collected in the early 1960s from João Manoel Domingos, an elderly rememberer with vague memories of the language.
Katembri was spoken at the mission of
Saco dos Morcegos, now known as
Mirandela
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, Bahia.
Other languages with this name
''Xukuru-Kariri'' is a variety of
Xokó, which may be a
Kariri language
The Karirà languages, generally considered dialects of a single language, were a group of languages formerly spoken by the Kiriri people of Brazil. It was spoken until the middle of the 20th century; the 4,000 ethnic Kiriri are now monolingual P ...
. The name ''Kiriri'' is shared by
Dzubukuá, another Kariri language, and by
Xukuru.
Vocabulary
Bandeira (1972)
For a word list of Katembri (Kariri of Mirandela) by Bandeira (1972),
[Bandeira, Maria de Lourdes. 1972. ]
Os Kariris de Mirandela: Um Grupo IndÃgena Integrado
'. Estudos Baianos 6. Salvador: Universidade Federal da Bahia. (Apêndice "Sobrevivência lingüÃstica", p. 111-118; "Bibliografia", p. 169-171) see the corresponding
Portuguese article.
Loukotka (1968)
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Katembri, based on a 1951 word list by
Alfred Métraux
Alfred Métraux (5 November 1902 – 12 April 1963) was a Swiss and Argentine anthropologist, ethnologist and human rights leader.
Early life
Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Métraux spent much of his childhood in Argentina where his father was a ...
.
[Métraux, Alfred. 1951]
Une nouvelle langue Tapuya de la région de Bahia, (Brésil)
''Journal de la société des américanistes'', Année 1951, Volume 40, Numéro 1. p. 51-58.
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Métraux (1951)
A word list for ''Kariri of Mirandela'' from Métraux (1951) is reproduced below, with both original French glosses and translated English glosses.
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References
*Alain Fabre, 2005,
Diccionario etnolingüÃstico y guÃa bibliográfica de los pueblos indÃgenas sudamericanos: KIRIRI'.
{{South American languages
Katembri–Taruma languages
Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil
Extinct languages of South America