Maxakalían languages

Maxakalían
Mashakalian
Geographic
distribution		Brazil
Linguistic classificationMacro-Jê
Subdivisions
  • Nuclear Maxakalí
Maxakali
Kapoxó †
Monoxó †
Makoni †
Pataxó †
Hahaháy †
Koropo †
Language codes
Glottologmaxa1246
Distribution of Maxakalian languages among the Macro-Jê family

Map of the Maxakalian languages (excluding Koropo)

The Maxakalían languages (also Mashakalían) are a group of related indigenous languages of Brazil, named after Maxakalí, the one surviving language in the group. Linguists differ in the other, extinct, languages they identify as part of the group, many of which are poorly attested. The Maxakalían group is today usually considered part of the Macro-Jê language family.

Maxakalían languages were first classified into the Jê languages. It was only in 1931 that Čestmír Loukotka separated them from the Jê family. Alfred Métraux and Curt Nimuendajú considered the Maxakalían family isolated from others. John Alden Mason suggests a connection with the Macro-Jê stock, confirmed by Aryon Rodrigues.

Languages

Mason (1950) noted resemblances with a few other extinct languages of the area: Pataxó, Malalí and Coropó. Previously, there was some debate as to whether or not they constituted members of the Maxakalían family. However, Coropó was formerly sometimes thought to be a Purian language.

Maxakalí is a sister of Krenák and possibly also Kamakã. Together, they form a Trans-São Francisco branch within the Macro-Jê language phylum in Nikulin's (2020) classification.

Currently, Maxakali (excluding Old Machacari) is the only living language, while all other languages are extinct. The extinct Maxakalian varieties are mainly attested from 19th-century word lists:

Pataxó as documented by Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1820: 510–511) in 1816 is distinct from Pataxó-Hãhãhãe. Pataxó-Hãhãhãe was spoken into the 20th century and has been documented by Pickering in Meader (1978: 45–50), Scheibe in Loukotka (1963: 32–33), and Silva & Rodrigues (1982).

Notes

References

  1. 1 2 Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.
  2. ↑ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.
  3. ↑ Campos, Carlo Sandro (2011-01-01). Considerações sobre a língua usada nos cantos Maxakalí. VII Língua e Culturas Macro-Jê. pp. 171–193.
  4. 1 2 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. doi:10.20396/liames.v15i2.8642302
  5. 1 2 3 Saint-Hilaire, Auguste de (1830). Voyage dans les provinces de Rio de Janeiro et de Minas Geraes. Vol. 1. Paris : Grimbert et Dorez.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  6. 1 2 3 4 Wied, Maximilian (1820). Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817. Getty Research Institute. Frankfurt a.M. : Gedruckt und verlegt by Heinrich Ludwig Brönner.
  7. ↑ Martius, Karl Friedrich Philip von. 1863. Glossaria linguarum Brasiliensium: glossarios de diversas lingoas e dialectos, que fallao os Indios no imperio do Brazil. Erlangen: Druck von Jange.
  8. ↑ Saint-Hilaire, Auguste de (1830). Voyage dans les provinces de Rio de Janeiro et de Minas Geraes. Vol. 2. Paris : Grimbert et Dorez.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  9. ↑ Meader, Robert E. (1978). Indios do Nordeste: Levantamento sobre os remanescentes tribais do nordeste brasileiro (in Portuguese). Brasilia: SIL International. Archived from the original on 2024-10-08. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  10. ↑ Silva, Aracy Lopes da & Maria Carolina Young Rodrigues. 1982. Lições de Bahetá: sobre a língua Pataxó-Hãhãhãi. São Paulo: Commissão Pró-Índio de São Paulo.

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