Gamela of Viana

Gamela (Gamella), a.k.a. Curinsi or Acobû, is an unclassified and extinct language of the municipality of Viana in the state of Maranhão of Northeastern Brazil. It was originally spoken along the Itapecuru River, Turiaçu River, and Pindaré River, with ethnic descendants reported to be living in Cabo and Vianna in Maranhão State. The Gamela today speak Xavante and Portuguese. The last full-blooded Gamela died around the 1910s, and by 1930 only one old woman still remembered something of the language. 19 words of the language are recorded in Nimuendajú (1937:68).

Kaufman (1994) said that 'only Greenberg dares to classify this language', due to the lack of data on it.

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