Mato Grosso Arára language

Arára

Native to| Brazil
Region| Mato Grosso
Extinct| 20th century

Language family

unclassified

Language codes
ISO 639-3| `axg`
Glottolog| `mato1253`[1]

Mato Grosso Arára (also disambiguated as Arara do Beiradão or Arara do Rio Branco, and also known as Koaiá ~ Koayá) is an extinct unclassified language of Brazil . The ethnic population that spoke the language numbers about 150.

The language is unclassified, with no known connections to established families. It is attested in a single word list, which shows it is neither Tupian nor Arawakan. Four people remembered the language in 2001, and two in 2008, but none were fluent speakers.[2]

## Samples

[3] Mato Grosso Arára  | English

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mbaja  | child
no pai  | claw
kubai wit  | to drink
no beʃia  | ear
no ka pĩn  | eye
areka  | fire
no pia  | foot
nukij  | good
mbap  | hair
kopap  | head
nduka  | louse
be ʃa | mouth
no jan  | nose
wjaʔ  | stone
noĩn  | tooth
adɛ  | water

## References

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Mato Grosso Arára". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mato1253.
2. ↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
3. ↑ "Arara do Rio Branco". Archived from the original on 3 Mar 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220930/http://www2.unucseh.ueg.br/gicli/Swadeshlist/AraradoRioBranco.pdf.

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