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Sabujá (Sapoya), or Pedra Branca, is an extinct
Karirian language The Karirí languages, generally considered dialects of a single language, were a group of languages formerly spoken by the Kiriri people of Brazil. It was spoken until the middle of the 20th century; the 4,000 ethnic Kiriri are now monolingual ...
of northeastern
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, Brazil.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.
It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single
Kariri language The Karirí languages, generally considered dialects of a single language, were a group of languages formerly spoken by the Kiriri people of Brazil. It was spoken until the middle of the 20th century; the 4,000 ethnic Kiriri are now monolingual P ...
. It is documented in a word list by von Martius (1867).von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philip. 1867. ''Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen''. (Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens, II.) Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer.


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Kariri languages Extinct languages of South America {{Macro-Jê-lang-stub