Xukuruan languages

Xukuruan
Shukuru
Geographic
distribution		Brazil
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologxuku1239  Xukurú

The Xukuruan languages are a language family proposed by Czech linguist Čestmír Loukotka (1968) that links two languages of Alagoas state in Brazil, Xukuru and Paratió, both of them extinct. Glottolog treats them as dialects of a single Xukuru language.

Classification

The languages are:

Loukotka (1968) also lists the unattested Garañun (Garanhun), formerly distributed in the Serra dos Garanhuns, but this is rather the name of an Indigenous people of the mountain range mentioned by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in his ethnographic description of 1863.

References

  1. ↑ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  2. ↑ Xukuru Alain Fabre (2005). Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos.
  3. ↑ "Glottolog 5.3 - Xukurú". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2026-04-09.
  4. ↑ Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von (1867). Beitrãge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerika's zumal Brasiliens Volume 1 (in German). Leipzig : Friedrich Fleisher.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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