Katembri–Taruma is a
language family
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proposed by
Kaufman
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(1990) that links two extinct or critically endangered languages of South America:
*
Katembrí, also known as Mirandela of
Bahia State
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, Brazil,
[Métraux, A. (1951). Une nouvelle langue Tapuya de la région de Bahia, (Brésil). ''Journal de la Société de Americanistes''. 40: 51-58 ] and
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Taruma, also known as Taruamá of Brazil and Guyana.
The proposal is not repeated in Campbell (2012).
See also
*
Kariri languages
The Karirí 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 ...
References
* Alfred Métraux, 1951, ''Une nouvelle langue Tapuya de la région de Bahia, (Brésil)
Katembri–Taruma languages,
Indigenous languages of Western Amazonia
Languages of Brazil
Proposed language families
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