Tremembé a.k.a. Teremembé is an

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and unattested language of

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. It was originally spoken by the

Tremembé people The Tremembé or Teremembé people are an indigenous people in the states of Ceará and Maranhão in Brazil. Settlement area Existing members of this ethnicity are centered in the Almofala district of the municipality of Itarema, and a few ...

, who once inhabited the northern Brazilian coasts from

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. The Tremembé were described as a "Tapuia" tribe - that is, not one of the dominant Tupi–Guarani peoples of the coasts.

References

* Fabre, Alain (2005)
"Tremembé" (''Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos.'')
Unattested languages of South America Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil {{na-lang-stub