Katukina languages

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The Katukina languages are a small indigenous language family from South America that is common in eastern Brazil and consists of only three languages:

Kanamarí [knm] (approx. 1,700 speakers)
Katawixi [xat] (approx. 10 speakers)
Katukína [kav] (practically extinct)

(The language code according to ISO 639-3 is given in square brackets .)

literature

Harald Haarmann : Small Lexicon of Languages. From Albanian to Zulu (= Beck series. 1432). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47558-2 (2nd, revised edition, ibid 2002, ISBN 3-406-49423-4 ).

Web links

Katukinan (language family). In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016.

Literature about the Katukina in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin
Anthropological description of Katukina (Engl.)