Bonari language

Bonari
Bonari
Native to	Brazil
Region	Amazonas
Extinct	1870s
Language family	Cariban Atruahí–Bonari Bonari; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	bona1255
Linguasphere	80-AFC-aa

Bonari is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language, extinct since the 1870s. It is closely related to Waimiri-Atroarí (Yawaperí). It is known only from a short wordlist published in 1874. By that time, only one Bonari woman remained, who resided in Silves.^: 77–78

References

1 2 Girard, Victor James (1971). Proto-Carib Phonology (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2025). "Bonari". Glottolog 5.2. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher, eds. (2007). "The native languages of South America". Atlas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.). ISBN 9781315829845.
↑ Brazil. Commissão do Madeira; Souza, Francisco Bernardino de (1874). Pará e Amazonas, pelo encarregado dos trabalhos ethnographicos. Columbia University Libraries. Rio de Janeiro, Typographia nacional.

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[:0-1] 1 2 Girard, Victor James (1971). Proto-Carib Phonology (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley.

[2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2025). "Bonari". Glottolog 5.2. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher, eds. (2007). "The native languages of South America". Atlas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.). ISBN 9781315829845.

[4] Brazil. Commissão do Madeira; Souza, Francisco Bernardino de (1874). Pará e Amazonas, pelo encarregado dos trabalhos ethnographicos. Columbia University Libraries. Rio de Janeiro, Typographia nacional.