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Kanoê or Kapishana (also called Amniapé and Mekem) is a nearly extinct language isolate of Brazil. The Kapishana people now
speak Portuguese or other indigenous languages from intermarriage. The language names are also spelled Kapixana, Kapixanã,
and Canoé; yet another name is Guaratégaya, Guarategaja, Koaratira, Guaratira. For a long time Kanoê was too poorly attested
to classify. Various proposals were advanced on little evidence; Price (1978) for example thought Kanoê might be one of the
Nambikwaran languages. When it was finally described in some detail, by Bacelar (2004), it turned out to be a language isolate.
In the main Kanoê population of a hundred people, only three elders speak the language. However, in 1995 the discovery of
an isolated family of two monolingual adults and a two-year-old child doubled the known population, and demonstrated that
the language is not moribund. |
Names (more)[en] Kanoé[fi] Kanoé [es] Idioma kanoé |
Language type : Extinct
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : kxoLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kxohttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:kxo More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: kxoFreebase ISO 639-3 : kxo GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |