Máku
Máku was a language isolate once spoken in Brazil.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Máku is an unclassified language and likely language isolate and was formerly spoken on the Brazil–Venezuela border in Roraima along the upper Uraricoera and lower Auari rivers, west of Boa Vista, by the Jukude-itse ([ʝokudeˈit͜se] or [ʑokudeˈit͜se]) or 'people'. The last speaker, Kuluta (Sinfrônio Magalhães), died in 2000. There are currently no speakers or rememberers of the language and no one identifies as Jukude today. Aryon Rodrigues and Ernesto Migliazza, as well as Iraguacema Lima Maciel, worked on the language, and the data was collected into a grammar by Chris Rogers and published in 2020.
From Wikipedia · Máku language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Máku
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | co7kude* | |
| name | ence* | |
| eye | sukute* | |
| ear | Cika7te* | |
| nose | pi* | |
| tooth | wumu* | |
| tongue | dute* | |
| hand | suku* | |
| blood | leme* | |
| bone | amu* | |
| skin | Cmu* | |
| breast | C3C3* | |
| liver | isa* | |
| water | na7me* | |
| fire | n3he* | |
| star | 8aoku* | |
| stone | line* | |
| leaf | demu* | |
| night | ikisu* | |
| one | noku8amu* | |
| two | ba7ta* | |
| I | tene* | |
| you | ene* | |
| we | tekene* | |
| drink | mi* | |
| see | ku* | |
| hear | ne* | |
| die | kin3* | |
| path | ikilu* | |
| new | asi* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · maku1246 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · xak