Masakará is an extinct language related to Kamakã. It is one of the

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.Nikulin, Andrey. 2020.
Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo
'. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília. It was once spoken south of the city of

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and at the old mission of

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(present-day Mirandela,

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, near

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State). The district of Massacará in Euclides da Cunha, Bahia is named after the tribe. Martins (2007)Martins, Andérbio Márcio Silva. 2007. ''Revisão da Família Lingüística Kamakã Proposta por Chestmir Loukotka''. MA thesis,

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. classifies Masakará as the most divergent of the Kamakã languages.

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Extinct languages of South America Kamakã languages Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil {{Macro-Jê-lang-stub