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Xokó language

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Xokó
Shoko
Native toBrazil
RegionSergipe, Alagoas
EthnicityXokó
Extinctlate 20th century[1]
XokóNatú
  • Xokó
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologxoco1235
Map of the Xocó language.

Xokó (Chocó, Shokó, Ceococe[2]) is an extinct and poorly attested language of Brazil that is not known to be related to other languages. It has been classified as being related to Natú, which was spoken nearby.[3]

It was originally spoken along the Piancó River is an area that is now a suburb of Porto Real do Colégio.[4]

Vocabulary

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Loukotka (1963)

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French gloss
(original)
English gloss
(translated)
Šokó
arc bow sabue
chien dog bašiú
dent tooth tuľuso
eau water krananan
étoile star inkó
femme woman áspikiá
feu fire atika
flèche arrow ikrō
grand large akómá
hache ax ikrā
homme man pikuá
langue tongue avēľa
lune moon kra-uáve
main hand krasiá
maison house gandiľá
œil eye tuľusō
petit small kinefá
pied foot vēsirē
soleil sun kra-šulo
tabac tobacco bazí
terre earth atisere
tête head tipia

Pompeu (1958)

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Chocó (Xocó) vocabulary collected in Colégio, Alagoas:[6]

Portuguese gloss
(original)
English gloss
(translated)
Chocó
fogofireatsá/tsá
águawatertaká
cachimbosmoking pipepupú, massapuãba
homemmanmãjikêô

Loukotka (1968) transcribes 'man' as mazyikeːoː.[4]

References

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  1. Xokó at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Mata, Vera Lúcia Calheiros (2018-07-13) [May 1999]. "Kariri-Xokó - Povos Indígenas no Brasil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2026-07-22.
  3. Lima Neto, Valdivino José de; Nunes, Ticiane Rodrigues (2022). "Etnolinguística Indígena: A Classificação da Língua do Povo Xokó". Ensaios Interdisciplinares em Humanidades (PDF). Vol. 5. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande. pp. 400–419.
  4. 1 2 Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  5. Loukotka, Čestmír (1963). "Documents et vocabulaires inédits de langues et de dialectes sud-américains". Journal de la Société des Américanistes (in French). 52 (1): 7–60. doi:10.3406/jsa.1963.2001. ISSN 0037-9174.
  6. Pompeu Sobrinho, Thomaz. 1958. Línguas Tapuias desconhecidas do Nordeste: Alguns vocabulários inéditos. Boletim de Antropologia (Fortaleza-Ceará) 2. 3-19.