Kaingang
| Kaingang | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Brazil | |
| speaker | approx. 29,000 | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
sai |
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| ISO 639-3 |
kgp |
|
General
The Kaingang (also Kaingange , Caingange or similar) are an indigenous people in southern Brazil. The people today comprise almost 29,000 people, making them one of the five largest indigenous peoples in Brazil.
The Kaingang live in a total of 30 isolated settlement areas, which are distributed over the four states of São Paulo , Paraná , Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul . The population of the individual settlement areas varies from fifteen to 6,100. A further seven areas are claimed.
The Kaingang language, together with the Xokleng language, is one of the southern Gê languages . The other Gê languages, which belong to the Macro-Gê language family , are spoken much further north, for example in Mato Grosso or Pará . The Kaingang are the largest of the gê-speaking peoples and make up about half of the speakers.
population
| Number of incoming calls by state (2005) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State (from north to south) | Number of settlement areas | Relatives | |||||
| São Paulo | 2 | 105 | |||||
| Paraná | 11 | 8,540 | |||||
| Santa Catarina | 5 | 3,940 | |||||
| Rio Grande do Sul | 12 | 16,245 | |||||
| All in all | 30th | 28,830 | |||||
| Source: portalkaingang.com and own calculation | |||||||
See also
Web links
- Kaingang portal (Portuguese)
- Homepage about the people Kaingang at the Instituto Socioambiental (Portuguese, English)
- FUNAI (Fundação Nacional do Índio) (Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ^ M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue : Languages of the World. 18th edition. SIL International, Dallas TX 2015.