Kaimbé is an extinct

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of eastern Brazil. The ethnic population numbered an estimated 1,100 to 1,400 in 1986. The language is scarcely attested; in 1961 one elder was able to remember a few single words mixed with Kiriri. The district of Caimbé in

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is named after the tribe.

Vocabulary

Kaimbé words collected from an elderly rememberer in Massacará,

by Wilbur Pickering in 1961: :

References

*Alain Fabre, 2005, ''Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: KAIMBÉ

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaimbe Language Unclassified languages of South America Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil