Baenan language
| Baenan | |
|---|---|
| Baenã | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Bahia |
| Ethnicity | Baênã |
| Extinct | by 1961 |
unclassified | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | baen1237 |
Baenan (Baenã, Baenán, Baena, Baênã) 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. By 1961, only one Baenã person was found; she did not provide any words of the language.[1]
Vocabulary
[edit]There are nine known words of Baenan:[2]
| gloss | Baenan |
|---|---|
| deer | eželẽ |
| venison | bakurí |
| fire | kelemés |
| jaguar | patarak |
| black person | kadašužé |
| pig | bonikro |
| rat | pititiɲga |
| monkey | pitirát |
| bull | šẽšẽ |
References
[edit]- ^ Nelson, Jessica Fae (2018). Pataxó Hãhãhãe: Race, Indigeneity and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Northeast (Thesis).
- ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1963). "Documents et Vocabulaires Inédits de Langues et de Dialects Sud-Américains" [Unpublished documents and vocabularies of South American languages and dialects] (PDF). Journal de la Société des Américanistes (in French). 52: 7–60. doi:10.3406/jsa.1963.2001.
