Tremembé language
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| Tremembé | |
|---|---|
| Teremembé | |
| (unattested) | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Ceará |
| Ethnicity | Tremembé people |
| Extinct | early 19th century |
unclassified | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tme |
| Glottolog | trem1235 |
 Tremembé | |
Tremembé, Teremembé or Taramembe is an extinct and unattested language of Brazil. It was originally spoken by the Tremembé people, who once inhabited the northern Brazilian coasts from Pará to Ceará. The Tremembé were described as a "Tapuia" tribe - that is, not one of the dominant Tupi–Guarani peoples of the coasts. It was thought "very likely" to belong to the Macro-Jê languages by John Alden Mason.[1] Only a few personal names of this language were recorded before it became extinct in the early 19th century.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians (PDF). Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.
- ^ Nimuendajú, Curt (1937). "The Gamella Indians". Primitive Man. 10 (3/4): 58. doi:10.2307/3316456. ISSN 0887-3925.
- Fabre, Alain (2005): "Tremembé" (Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos.)
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