Xocó (Chocó, Shokó) is a dead and poorly attested language or languages of Brazil that is not known to be related to other languages. It is known from three populations: Xokó (Chocó) in

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, Kariri-Xocó (Kariri-Shoko, Cariri-Chocó) in

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, and Xukuru-Kariri (Xucuru-Kariri, Xucuru-Cariri) in

. It is not clear if these were one language or three. It is only known from a few dozen words from one Kariri-Xoco elder and three Xukuru-Kariri elders in 1961.Rememberers persisted for some time after that. Xocó proper has only 4 known words. It was originally spoken along the Piancó River is an area that is now a suburb of

Porto Real do Colégio Porto Real do Colégio is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Former indigenous languages The unclassified extinct Wakoná language was formerly spoken in Penedo. Loukotka (1968) reported that the remaining ethnic descen ...

. In ISO encoding, the language was conflated with the Kariri family as ISO 639-3 zw'Karirí-Xocó'; ''

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'' does not indicate if this was a conscious decision. The confusion likely arises from the Kariri community referring to Dzubukuá as Kariri-Xocó.

Other languages with this name

''Xoco, Xukuru,'' and ''Kariri'' are all common generic names in the region. See

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Vocabulary

Pompeu (1958)

Chocó (Xocó) vocabulary collected in Colégio,

:Pompeu Sobrinho, Thomaz. 1958. ''Línguas Tapuias desconhecidas do Nordeste: Alguns vocabulários inéditos''. Boletim de Antropologia (Fortaleza-Ceará) 2. 3-19. : Loukotka (1968) transcribes 'man' as .

Meader (1978)

Five ''Xukuru-Kariri'' word lists collected by Menno Kroeker in

in 1961 are published in Meader (1978). Words recorded from an elderly male '' pajé'' (shaman) in

: : Words recorded from Alfredo Caboquim, a '' pajé'' (shaman), and his brother Miguel Caboquim in Fazenda Conta,

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, Alagoas: : Words recorded from an elderly farmer in Fazenda Conta,

, Alagoas: : Words recorded from João Candido da Silva, a young farmer in Fazenda Conta,

, Alagoas: : Words recorded from José Fermino da Silva of

: :

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Xoco language Extinct languages of South America Unclassified languages of South America Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil