The Kamakã language (Kamakan), or Ezeshio, is an extinct language of a small family, belonging to the

Macro-Jê languages Macro-Jê (also spelled Macro-Gê) is a medium-sized language stock in South America, mostly in Brazil but also in the Chiquitanía region in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, as well as (formerly) in small parts of Argentina and Paraguay. It is centered on ...

of Brazil.Nikulin, Andrey. 2020.
Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo
'. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília. Kotoxó and Mongoyó/Mangaló are sometimes included as dialects.

Phonology

* /ə/ can also be realized as a back vowel sound � * /ɾ/ can be in free variation with a fricative �and a lateral * /n/ is heard as �when preceding /k/.

Classification

Kamakã is a Macro-Jê language. It was spoken by several groups of indigenous peoples who lived in Bahia, including the Kamakã, Mongoyó, Menién, Kotoxó and Masakará.Rivail Ribeiro et van der Voort 2010, p. 547.

References

Sources

* Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro, Hein van der Voort, ''Nimuendajú Was Right : The Inclusion of the Jabuti Language Family in the Macro-Jê Stock'', International Journal of American Linguistics, 76:4, pp. 517-570, 2010. Extinct languages of South America Languages extinct in the 20th century Kamakã languages Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil {{Macro-Jê-lang-stub