Trumai

ho kod ke

Trumai is a language isolate spoken in Brazil, by about 120 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.

Trumai · 11.8°S 53.6°W

An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

Trumai is an endangered language isolate spoken by the Trumai people located in the Xingu reserve along the Upper Xingu River in central Brazil. Most Trumai are fluent in languages of wider communication, and children are not learning it well. It is highly divergent from other South American languages, such as distinguishing unusual consonants.

Murphy and Quain reported that there were only 25 people remaining in the Trumai community. This has since increased to 94 as of 1997, of which 51 people spoke the Trumai language. In the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Grimes observes that there are 78 speakers as of 2003. Due to the popularity of speaking Portuguese among the local population, Trumai is considered an extremely endangered language because the children are not learning to speak it as a first language.

From Wikipedia · Trumai language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Trumai

Meaning	Word	Romanization
woman	di
name	ku*
eye	xon*
ear	fapt3*
nose	lax*
tooth	iSa*
hand	kad*
skin	p3t*
water	misu
fire	so*
sun	ateLa*
star	asi*
stone	itak*
tree	3w3r*
leaf	ikada*
night	San*
dog	kasoro*
fish	kate*
one	mihin*
two	huS*
I	ha*
you	hi*
we	hawanek*
drink	sone*
see	huca*
hear	faca*
die	fakdic*
come	kaS3*
path	ciuel*
new	xodae*