Mato Grosso Arára (also disambiguated as Arara do Beiradão or Arara do Rio Branco, and also known as Koaiá ~ Koayá or YugapkatãRamirez, Henri. 2010. Etnônimos e topônimos no Madeira (séculos XVI-XX): um sem-número de equívocos. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica v. 2 n. 2, p. 179-224. (PDF)) is an extinct unclassified language of Brazil. The ethnic population that spoke the language numbers 249 as of 2014.
Classification The language is unclassified, with no known connections to established families. It is attested in a few word lists, which shows it is neither Tupian nor Arawakan. Four people remembered the language in 2001, and two in 2008, but none were fluent speakers.
Jolkesky (2010) notes some lexical similarities with Tupian.Jolkesky, Marcelo. 2010. Arara do Rio Branco e o tronco Tupí.
Vocabulary
The following vocabulary list was collected in 2001 by Inês Hargreaves from two Arara groups in the north of the Parque Aripuanã, Rondônia. The informants were João Luis V. Arara, José Rodrigues V. Arara, Maria Aruy Arara, and Ana Anita Arara.
+Arara do Rio Branco word listArara do Rio BrancoEnglishchildno paiclawkubai witto drinkno beʃiaearno ka pĩneyearekafireno piafootnukijgoodmbaphairkopapheadndukalousebe mouthno jannosewjaʔstonenoĩntoothadɛwater
For a more extensive vocabulary list of Arara by Jolkesky (2010), see the corresponding Portuguese article.
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