Sabujá language

Sabujá
Sapuyá
Martius word list
Native to	Brazil
Region	northeastern Bahia
Ethnicity	Kiriri (Kiriri-Sapuyá)
Extinct	by 1891
Language family	Karirian Sabujá
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	sabu1246
Linguasphere	89-CBA-ad

Sabujá (Sapuyá) is an extinct Karirian language of northeastern Bahia, Brazil.

History

Martius visited the Kiriris in 1818, when he collected a word list of Sabujá. It is the only known record of it. By 1891, the Sabujá were found to have disappeared by Paul Ehrenreich.

Vocabulary

Martius word list

• assa carnem – thabuneh gratzo.
• ascendo – thoigoboehgemuih.
• audio – natzothelzicaignah.
• auris – penich.
• avunculus – cuccùh (Kiriri).
• barba – zanatih.
• bibo – mitschätzufazicujeng.
• brachium – tzaneh.
• brevis – hanjeheh.
• caeruleus – cracullihüh.
• calor – buicobehüh.
• canto – docacammaraüleh (Kiriri).
• capillus – hotsebuh.
• caput – zabùh nukibmú maip.
• clamo – cacatzicòh.
• clericus – uahre (Kiriri).
• coelum – legge.
• cognatus – jatsammuh (Kiriri).
• collum – canecah (cungá: Aimara).
• contundere grana maydis tota – musikinang.
• corpus – lujöwagoh, ibuyewoho kiriri.
• costa – missih (s. Kir.).
• cutis – iroh (s. Kir.).
• cutis taurina – irogratzo (s. Kir.).
• dens – zah (s. Kir.).
• descendo – hitschüb(o)athöh.
• deus – tubbuih.
• diabolus – niu(ng)oh (s. Kir.).
• dies – cajabluih (s. Kir.)
• doleo, ere – unübet thathayaih.
• dormio – tacuinihùh.
• edo – buitocuingnulèh.
• eo, ire – tacuihillöh.
• femur – uoeh.
• filia – iniutkütsih (s. Kir.).
• filius – giniuleh.
• fistula fumaria – poiuh-poiüh.
• flavus – cruhellihüh.
• foedus, a, um – lelebohih.
• frater – g'ibuléh.
• frigus – giniacunih.
• frons – cobèh.
• fulgur – kitschebotschühih.
• gusto – tuchegkihühileh.
• herba – phüh (s. K.).
• homo – (g)löh (s. K.).
• homo albus – carai.
• homo niger – goh (s. K.).
• homines multi – zoghenihoh.
• ignis – essùh (s. K.).
• jocor – curazikhülèh.
• lac – guma moneh.
• lavo – latibögiroanah.
• lingua – nunüh (s. K.).
• longus – sorotsethaheh.
• luna – gajacùh (s. K.)
• macer – gratzebaheh.
• mamma – mamoèh.
• manus – mussoèh.
• mater – hikgâeh (s. K.).
• membrum virile – niu(r)leh.
• membrum mul. – sinueh.
• mingo – sinseccoh.
• missa – wanga, missa.
• multus – pujachük.
• mulier – gkütstih (s. K.).
• nasus – nabitzeh.
• niger – cotzolihüh.
• nox – mucajà (s. K.).
• oculus – poh.
• olere bene – tuchegtschihüh.
• os, oris – orizeh (s. K.).
• os, ossis – gimmeh.
• patella – guttuh (s. K.).
• pater – poitzuh.
• paucus – pupü lupischü.
• pectus – crabuh.
• pes – puih (s. K.).
• pinguis – huinjataheh.
• pluma – icküh (s. K.).
• pluma anataria – ickypatohüh (s. Kir.).
• puer – miukòh.
• pulcher – canglitschuih.
• ruber – crohellihüh.
• sanguis – hibblüh.
• scinde carnem ad assandum – thabo(r)hehgratzo hülleh a cobotoh.
• senex – nlanèh.
• socius, compater – anüllèh! schiletleh.
• sol – utschèh (s. K.).
• soror – puccöèh (s. K.).
• stella – bathüh (s. K.).
• sylva – litsi.
• terra – rattah (s. K.).
• tonitru – tzoklühlih (s. K.).
• venter – muttuh (s. K.)
• video – natzothehhinjoh.
• umbilicus – muclih.
• unguis – tschibajah.
• veni! – cacazihoh.
• volo – zucailitòh.

Bibliography

• Adam, Lucien (1897). Matériaux pour servir à l'établissement d'une grammaire comparée des dialectes de la famille Kariri [Materials to serve for the establishment of a comparative grammar of the dialects of the Kariri family] (in French). Paris: Maisonneuve. Archived from the original on 21 May 2025.
• Azevedo, Gilda Maria Corrêa de (1965). Língua Kiriri: descrição do dialeto Kipeá [Kiriri language: description of the Kipeá dialect] (in Portuguese). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília. Archived from the original on 16 July 2025.
• Martius, Carl Friedr. Phil. von (1863). Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens [Contributions to the ethnography and linguistics of Brazil ] (in German). Vol. 2. Erlangen: Druck von Junge & Sohn. Archived from the original on 17 June 2024.

External links

• Media related to Sabujá language at Wikimedia Commons