Potiguara dialect

Potiguara is an extinct dialect of Tupi formerly used by the Potiguara people of Brazil. It is attested primarily from a short wordlist recorded in 1961 by linguists from SIL.^[2] According to Willem Adelaar, the language is best analyzed as a dialect of Tupinambá, based on possibly Potiguara data found in the Dutch National Archive.^[3]

Potiguara
Native to	Brazil
Ethnicity	Potiguara people
Extinct	early 1970s[1]
Language family	Tupian Tupí–Guarani Tupi languages Tupí Potiguara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pog
Glottolog	poti1237
Potiguara

Vocabulary

Potiguára words collected from an elderly male rememberer living in São Francisco, Pernambuco by Paul Wagner in 1961:^[2]

Portuguese gloss (original)	English gloss (translated)	Potiguára
casa	house	ɔka
comida feita da mandioca	food made from cassava	patʰιšə
farinha de mandioca (mandioca mole)	cassava flour (soft cassava)	pisikʰa
mandioca numa bola para guardar	cassava ball (for storage)	kařimə
manipueira da mandioca	cassava plant	kənšikə
animal (teiú)	animal (Tupinambis lizard)	dzižuảsu
arma de pesca	fishing weapon	ləndʷa; šɔkʰI; phusa
ave (perdiz)	bird (partridge)	nʌmbu
bicho	insect	mʌʔmʌndʷa
bicho da lama	type of insect	lɔʰhɔřu
cama de pau	wooden bed	kảtảtảu
camarão (espécie)	shrimp (species)	ařatʰʌya
caracol	snail	masuñi
comida do mato	bush food	pokumə
frutinha	small fruit	křařwata
ostra	oyster	mařiskʰo