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Waitaká language
Extinct unclassified language of Brazil From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Waitaká (Guaitacá, Goyatacá, Goytacaz) is an extinct language of Brazil,[1] on the São Mateus River and near Cabo de São Tomé in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Not a word of it is known. Dialects, or at least tribal divisions, were Mopi, Yacorito, Wasu, and Miri.[2] Loukotka (1968) suggests it may have been one of the Purian languages,[3] though others consider this classification "circumstantial".[1]
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Reconstruction
Operating under the assumption that Waitaká is a Purian language, Silva Neto (2007) reconstructs some words and a phonology.[4]
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