Baenan language
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Baenan
Spoken in: Brazil 
Region: Bahia
Total speakers: ?
Language family: Language isolate?
 Baenan
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: sai
ISO 639-3:

Baenan is a poorly attested language of Brazil. The last remaining speaker lived in Bahia, Brazil in 1940. The language of this speaker was associated with the Baenan language as the last members of the Baenan tribe lived in Paragaçú, Bahia, near where the language was attested. There are nine known words of Baenan[1]:

  1. eželẽ - deer
  2. bakurí - venison
  3. kelemés - fire
  4. patarak - jaguar
  5. kadašužé - black person
  6. bonikro - pig
  7. pititiɲga - rat
  8. pitirát - monkey
  9. šẽšẽ - bull

References

  1. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír. "Documents et Vocabulaires Inédits de Langues et de Dialects Sud-Américains". Journal de la Société des Americanistes 52: 7-60. 
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