Jaikó (Jeicó, Jeikó, Yeico, Geico, Eyco) is an extinct language of southeastern
Piauí
Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66 ...
, Brazil.
Classification
Based on a 67-word list from the 19th century in
von Martius (1867, v. 2, p. 143),
[von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philip. 1867. Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen.]
Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens, II
) Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer. it appears to be a
Jê language.
However, Ramirez et al. (2015: 260–261) doubts the accuracy of von Martius' list, and notes that the word list may actually consist of a wide mixture of languages spoken in
Piauí
Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66 ...
, including from
Pimenteira (
Cariban
The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to northeastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, and they are also spoken in small pockets ...
) and
Masakará (
Kamakã).
[Ramirez, H., Vegini, V., & França, M. C. V. de. (2015)]
Koropó, puri, kamakã e outras línguas do Leste Brasileiro
''LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas'', 15(2), 223 - 277. Nevertheless, Nikulin (2020) still finds convincing evidence that Jaikó was a
Macro-Jê language, but does not consider it to be within the
Jê branch.
Distribution
Jaikó was spoken around the ''aldeia'' (village) of Cajueiro, located in what is now southeastern
Piauí
Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66 ...
state. The name is derived from the town of
Jaicós, which was located in the Jaikó people's territory around the
Canindé River and
Gurgueia River.
[Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. ]
Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo
'. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.
Word list
The full Geicó word list from
von Martius (1867),
with both the original Latin glosses and translated English glosses, is reproduced below.
References
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Unclassified languages of South America
Jê languages
Extinct languages of South America
Languages extinct in the 19th century