Ingain language

Ingain is an extinct Jê language of Brazil, closely related to the Southern Jê languages Kaingáng and Laklãnõ (Xokléng). Kimdá may have been a dialect. Ingain was spoken along the middle Paraná River, from the Iguatemi River in the north to the Arroyo Yabebiry in the south.^[1]: 15

Ingain
Native to	Brazil
Region	Santa Catarina
Extinct	early 20th century?
Language family	Macro-Jê Jê Jê of Paraná Ingain
Dialects	Kimdá
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	inga1253

Related "South Kaingáng" languages were:^[2]

• Guayana / Wayana / Gualachí / Guanhanan - extinct language once spoken between the Uruguay River and Paraná River, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Amhó or Ivitorocái - extinct language from Riacho Ivitoracái, Paraguay. Listed as separate from the Ingain cluster by Mason (1950).^[3]

See also

• Kaingang language