centered on the Jê language family, with most other branches currently being single languages due to recent extinctions. The Macro-Jê family was first...
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The Jê languages (also spelled Gê, Jean, Ye, Gean), or Jê–Kaingang languages, are spoken by the Jê, a group of indigenous peoples in Brazil. The Jê family...
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Maxakalían languages (also Mashakalían) were first classified into the Jê languages. It was only in 1931 that Čestmír Loukotka separated them from the Jê family...
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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 family...
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Proto-Macro-Jê (with W = Proto-Western Macro-Jê; E = Proto-Eastern Macro-Jê), Proto-Tupí, and Proto-Karib from Nikulin (2015):: 91–96 Jê-Tupí-Cariban basic vocabulary...
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possible language isolate spoken by 1% of the Guató people of Brazil. Kaufman (1990) provisionally classified Guató as a branch of the Macro-Jê languages, but...
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2010. "Nimuendajú was right: The inclusion of the Jabutí language family in the Macro-Jê stock." International Journal of American Linguistics, 76(4)...
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probable Macro-Jê languages, are spoken further to the south in Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais states. Ramirez et al. (2015) notes that Kariri languages display...
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The Kamakã languages are a small family of extinct Macro-Jê languages of Bahía, northeastern Brazil. The attested Kamakã languages are: (northern) Kamakã...
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The Kaingang language (also spelled Kaingáng) is a Southern Jê language (Jê, Macro-Jê) spoken by the Kaingang people of southern Brazil. The Kaingang nation...
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