Catuquinarú is the extinct and unclassified language of the Catuquinaru tribe of Brazil, preserved in a few words collected by Jose Bach and published by G. E. Church in 1898. The name is a common derivative of '' Catuquina''. Loukotka includes it among the

Tupi languages The Tupí or Tupinambá languages (also known as Tupi–Guarani III) are a subgroup of the Tupi–Guarani language family.Dietrich, Wolf. O tronco tupi e as suas famílias de línguas. Classificação e esboço tipológico. In: NOLL, Volker. ' ...

, describing the people as Tupinized Catuquina. However, the little preserved vocabulary does not resemble that of the Tupi languages, Catuquinan languages, or

Panoan languages Panoan (also Pánoan, Panoano, Panoana, Páno) is a family of languages spoken in Peru, western Brazil, and Bolivia. It is possibly a branch of a larger Pano–Tacanan family. Genetic relations The Panoan family is generally believed to be relat ...

(compare Panoan Catuquina). The following words are given by Loukotka: :''taka-su'' 'head' :''saña'' 'tooth' :''punü'' 'hand' :''uhehü'' 'water' Bach reported that the Catuquinaru used a coded version of their language to communicate over distances of up to 1.5 km via drums called cambarysus.Richard Hennig, ''Telegraphensysteme der Naturvoelker'', in ''Prometheus: Illustrierte Wochenschrift über die Fortschritte'', volume 20, number 1013 (24 March 1909)

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