Waitaká language

Waitaká
Goytacaz
(unattested)
Native to	Brazil
Region	Rio de Janeiro
Ethnicity	Goitacá
Extinct	by 18th century
Language family	Purian ? Waitaká
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	4x0
Glottolog	None
Goytacaz

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]

Reconstruction

Operating under the assumption that Waitaká is a Purian language, Silva Neto (2007) reconstructs some words and a phonology.^[4]

References

1. Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3.
2. Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.
3. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
4. da Silva Neto, Ambrósio Pereira (2007). Revisão da classificação da família lingüística Purí (PDF) (Master's thesis). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.