Social:Arakajú language

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Short description: Extinct Cariban language
Arakajú
Aracajú
Native toBrazil
RegionPará
Extinctafter 1820[1]
Cariban
  • Wayana?
    • Arakajú
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologarac1235[2]

Arakajú (Aracajú, Araquajú[1]) is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language.[3][1] Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Wayana branch.[4][5] The Arakajú were incorporated into the Aparai people.[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philip (1867). Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen. Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens. II. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_HCkTAAAAYAAJ. 
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Aracaju". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/arac1235. 
  3. Gildea, Spike (2002). "Ergativity in the northern Cariban Languages". Atas do primeiro encontro do projeto Manifestações da ergatividade na Amazônia: 137–145. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268382936. 
  4. Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Darkes, Giles (2007), Atlas of the world's languages (2nd ed.), London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-31074-1, https://www.routledge.com/Atlas-of-the-Worlds-Languages/Asher-Moseley/p/book/9781315829845, retrieved 2025-09-18 
  5. Nimuendajú, Curt (1948), "Little-known tribes of the Lower Amazon", The Tropical Forest Tribes, Handbook of South American Indians (Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology) 3: pp. 209–211, https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/hsai%3Avol3p209-211/vol3p209-211_lower_amazon.pdf, retrieved 2026-05-13 
  6. "Wayana - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". https://pib.socioambiental.org/en/Povo:Wayana. 

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