Katawixi (Catawishi) is a
Katukinian language formerly spoken in
Amazonas,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. It is nearly extinct among the known populations of Katawixi people, though an uncontacted group nearby may be Katawixi-speaking (Queixalós & Anjos G.S. 2007:29, cited in Hammarström 2010:194).
[Harald Hammarström, 2010, 'The status of the least documented language families in the world'. In ''Language Documentation & Conservation'', v 4, p 18]
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Only a handful of isolated tribes still speak this language.
References
Languages of Brazil
Katukinan languages
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