Jacundá language
| Jacundá | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Pará |
| Ethnicity | Jacundá people |
| Era | attested 1793 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Jacundá is an extinct, unclassified language formerly spoken by the Jacundá people. Only two proper names are known from it.
Name
The name "Jacundá" is that of the Crenicichla genus of fish.[1]: 206
Vocabulary
Two Jacundá names among those of chiefs along the Araguaia River recorded in 1793[1]: 206 are recorded from the Jacundá language: Uoriniuera,[2]: 432 which the German-Brazilian ethnologist Curt Nimuendajú etymologized as Tupian warinikwéra 'old war',[1]: 206 and Claxira,[2]: 432 which Nimuendajú claimed was "contrary to Tupí phonetics".[1]: 206 He left Jacundá unclassified in his ethnolinguistic map of 1948.[3] Nevertheless, the Czech linguist Čestmír Loukotka (1968) classified it as a Tupian language in his "Pará Group", with the Anambé, Xingu Asurini, Takunyapé, Tapajó, and Parakanã languages.[4]: 112
References
- 1 2 3 4 Nimuendajú, Curt (1948). "Little known tribes of the lower Tocantins river region" (PDF). In Steward, J. H. (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 3.
- 1 2 "Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro (RJ) - 1839 a 2021 - DocReader Web". memoria.bn.gov.br. Retrieved 2026-08-02.
- ↑ "Mapa Etno-Histórico de Curt Nimuendaju". mapa-nimuendaju.iphan.gov.br. Retrieved 2026-08-02.
- ↑ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Classification of South American Indian Languages (PDF) (4th ed.). Latin American Center, UCLA: Latin American Center, University of California Los Angeles. ISBN 978-0879031077.