The Borôroan languages of Brazil are Borôro and the extinct Umotína and Otuke. They are sometimes considered to form part of the proposed Macro-Jê language...

von Humboldt noticed that the languages of the Americas seemed to be very different from the better-known European languages, yet seemingly also quite similar...

(1994) suggests a relationship with the Bororoan languages. Adelaar (2008) classifies Chiquitano as a Macro-Jê language, while Nikulin (2020) suggests that...

Macro-Jê Jê (45,000 speakers) Jeikó † Krenák (Botocudo) Krenak (10 speakers) Borôroan Bororo Bororo (1,400 speakers) Umotína † Otuke † Kamakã † Karajá (2,700...

in a cluster of languages in Vanuatu, in the Kajoko dialect of Bijago in Guinea-Bissau, in Umotína (a recently extinct Bororoan language of Brazil), and...

etymologically related to the name Gorgotoqui. Several attested extinct Bororoan varieties were either dialects of Otuke or closely related: Covareca -...

also known as Boe, is the sole surviving language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Jê languages. It is spoken by the Bororo, hunters and...

Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...

undocumented extinct language of the Chiquitania region of the eastern Bolivian lowlands. It may have been a Bororoan language. Alternate spellings include...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue...