Social:Himarimã language

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Short description: Presumed language of Brazil
Himarimã
Hi-Merima
(unattested)
Native toBrazil
RegionTapauá River valley
EthnicityHi-Merimã people
Native speakers
(undated figure of 40)[1]
unclassified (Arawan?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3hir
Glottologhima1247[2]

Himarimã is the presumed language of the uncontacted Hi-Merimã people in Amazonas, Brazil. A contact may have happened in 2007.[3] A wordlist was recorded, but was later lost.[4] The language is believed to be Arawán per testimonies from the Suruwahá and Banawá.[5][6]

Notes

  1. Himarimã at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Himarima". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/hima1247. 
  3. Himarimã language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  4. Campbell, Lyle (2024-06-25), "Indigenous Languages of South America" (in en), The Indigenous Languages of the Americas (Oxford University PressNew York): pp. 182–279, doi:10.1093/oso/9780197673461.003.0004, ISBN 978-0-19-767346-1, https://academic.oup.com/book/57386/chapter/464719092, retrieved 2025-04-16 
  5. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  6. "Glottolog 5.1 - Himarimã". https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/hima1247. 

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