Nukini language

Nukini
Remo
Nukuini
Native toBrazil
RegionAcre
Ethnicity600 (2012)
Extinctlate 20th century
3 rememberers (2007)
Panoan
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Nawa
      • Poyanawa
        • Nukini
Language codes
ISO 639-3nuc
Glottolognuku1263
ELPNukini
Nukiní is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Nukini (Nukuini, Nuquini) is an obsolescent Panoan language of Brazil. In some historical texts the Nukini are also referred to as Inucuini, Nucuiny, Nukuini, Nucuini, Inocú-inins and Remo.

As a result of contact with outsiders, there are currently few who speak Nukini as a mother tongue. The Nukini stopped passing on the language to their descendants, and the current generation speaks Portuguese. The language has been taught in schools since 2000.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Palatal Velar
Occlusive voiceless p t k
voiced b
Nasal m n
Tap ɾ
Fricative voiceless f s x
voiced v
Approximant w j

Orthography

The language uses 18 letters.

Notes

  1. ↑ Nukini language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. 1 2 3 Aguiar, Maria S. de (2007), "The Brazilian Panoan Languages", Language Endangerment and Endangered Languages: Linguistic and Anhropological Studies with Special Emphasis on the Languages and Cultures of the Andean-Amazonian Border Area, Lenguas Indígenas de América Latina (ILLA), vol. 5, Leiden: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Universiteit Leiden, pp. 39–50, retrieved 2025-09-25
  3. ↑ W. Fleck, David (October 10, 2013). "Panoan Languages and Linguistics". Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History (99): 11. doi:10.5531/sp.anth.0099 (inactive 1 July 2025). hdl:2246/6448.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
  4. ↑ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  5. 1 2 "Nukini - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
  6. ↑ Okidoi, Aline (2004). Descrição fonológica preliminar da língua indígena Nukini-Pano (masters thesis). Florianópolis: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.