Social:Himarimã language

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Short description: Presumed extinct language of Brazil
Himarimã
Hi-Merima
Native toBrazil
RegionTapauá River valley
EthnicityHi-Merimã people
Native speakers
(undated figure of 40)[1]
unattested; 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] The language is believed to be Arawán per testimonies from the Suruwahá and Banawá.[4]

Notes

  1. Himarimã at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  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. Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices