Arakajú
Aracajú
Native toBrazil
RegionPará
Extinctafter 1820[1]
Cariban
  • Wayana?
    • Arakajú
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologarac1235

Arakajú (Aracajú, Araquajú[1]) is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language.[2][1] Kaufman (2007) placed it in his Wayana branch.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philip (1867). Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen. Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens. Vol. II. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer.
  2. ^ Gildea, Spike (2002). "Ergativity in the northern Cariban Languages". Atas do primeiro encontro do projeto Manifestações da ergatividade na Amazônia: 137–145.
  3. ^ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Darkes, Giles (2007), Atlas of the world's languages (2nd ed.), London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-31074-1, retrieved 2025-09-18
  4. ^ Nimuendajú, Curt (1948), "Little-known tribes of the Lower Amazon" (PDF), The Tropical Forest Tribes, Handbook of South American Indians, vol. 3, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 209–211, retrieved 2026-05-13


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