Palmela language

Palmela
Native toBrazil
RegionRondônia
Extinctby 1954[1]
Cariban
  • (unclassified)
    • Palmela
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologpalm1241
Linguasphere80-AJA-aa

Palmela (Palmella)[2][3] is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language. By 1954, only one elderly man, Andre Paix, could remember a few words of his language.[1] According to Terrence Kaufman (2007), Palmela was phonologically divergent from other Cariban languages.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Becker-Donner, Etta (1956). "Archäologische Funde am mittleren Guaporé (Brasilien)" (PDF). Archiv für Völkerkunde. 11: 202–249.
  2. ↑ da Fonseca, João Severiano (1881). Viagem ao Redor do Brasil 1875-1878. Vol. II. Rio de Janeiro: Typographia de Pinheiro.
  3. ↑ Erland Nordenskiöld (1915). Forskningar och äventyr i Sydamerika.
  4. ↑ Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher, eds. (2007). "The native languages of South America". Atlas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.). ISBN 9781315829845.