Xakriabá language
Encyclopedia
Xakriabá is an extinct
Ge language formerly spoken in Minas Gerais
, Brazil
by the Xakriabá people
, who today speak Portuguese
.
The last confirmed native speaker of the language died in 1864.
Language death
In linguistics, language death is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given language variety is decreased, eventually resulting in no native and/or fluent speakers of the variety...
Ge language formerly spoken in Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
by the Xakriabá people
Xakriabá people
-References:* http://www.isa.org.br/pib/epienglish/verbetinho/xakriaba.htm...
, who today speak Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
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The last confirmed native speaker of the language died in 1864.