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    centered on the language family, with most other branches currently being single languages due to recent extinctions. The Macro- family was first...
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    The languages (also spelled Gê, Jean, Ye, Gean), or –Kaingang languages, are spoken by the , a group of indigenous peoples in Brazil. The family...
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    Maxakalían languages (also Mashakalían) were first classified into the languages. It was only in 1931 that Čestmír Loukotka separated them from the family...
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  • Thumbnail for Je–Tupi–Carib languages
    Proto-Macro-Jê (with W = Proto-Western Macro-; E = Proto-Eastern Macro-), Proto-Tupí, and Proto-Karib from Nikulin (2015):: 91–96  -Tupí-Cariban basic vocabulary...
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  • (Central ) language (, Macro-) formerly spoken in Minas Gerais, Brazil by the Xakriabá people, who today speak Portuguese. The language is known...
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  • Thumbnail for Guató language
    possible language isolate spoken by 1% of the Guató people of Brazil. Kaufman (1990) provisionally classified Guató as a branch of the Macro- languages, but...
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  • Thumbnail for Kamakã languages
    The Kamakã languages are a small family of extinct Macro- languages of Bahía, northeastern Brazil. The attested Kamakã languages are: (northern) Kamakã...
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    2010. "Nimuendajú was right: The inclusion of the Jabutí language family in the Macro- stock." International Journal of American Linguistics, 76(4)...
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  • Thumbnail for Kariri languages
    probable Macro- languages, are spoken further to the south in Espirito Santo and Minas Gerais states. Ramirez et al. (2015) notes that Kariri languages display...
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  • The Kaingang language (also spelled Kaingáng) is a Southern language (, Macro-) spoken by the Kaingang people of southern Brazil. The Kaingang nation...
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