Tremembé language

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Tremembé
Teremembé
(unattested)
Native to	Brazil
Region	Ceará
Ethnicity	Tremembé people
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tme`
Glottolog	`trem1235`
Tremembé

Tremembé, Teremembé or Taramembe is an extinct and unattested language of Brazil. It was originally spoken by the Tremembé people, who once inhabited the northern Brazilian coasts from Pará to Ceará. The Tremembé were described as a "Tapuia" tribe - that is, not one of the dominant Tupi–Guarani peoples of the coasts. It was thought "very likely" to belong to the Macro-Jê languages by John Alden Mason.^[1]

References

^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians (PDF). Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.

Fabre, Alain (2005): "Tremembé" (Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos.)

Languages of Brazil

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Regional languages

Indigenous
languages

Arawakan	Asháninka Atorada Baniwa Barawana Baré Enawenê-Nawê Mapidian Mehinaku Palikúr Paresi Tariana Terêna Wapishana Warekena Waurá
Arawan	Deni Jamamadí Kulina Paumarí Zuruahá
Cariban	Amonap Apalaí Bakairi Carib Hixkaryana Ikpeng Macushi Pará Arára Salumá Sikiana Ye'kuana Waiwai
Panoan	Amawaka Kashinawa Shipibo Yaminawa
Macro-Jê	Akwẽ-Xerénte Apinajé Arikapú Bororo Chiquitano Djeoromitxí Kaingang Karajá Kĩsêdjê Krenak Laklãnõ (Xokléng) Maxakalí Mẽbêngôkre Ofayé Panará Rikbaktsa Tapayúna Timbira Xavante
Nadahup	Dâw Hup Kakwa Nadëb
Tupian	Akwáwa Gavião of Jiparaná Juruna Kagwahiva Kaiwá Munduruku Nheengatu Omagua Tapirapé Tenetehara Xeta Xipaya Zo'é
Chapacuran	Oro Win Wariʼ
Tukanoan	Cubeo Tukano Tuyuca Wanano
Nambikwaran	Mamaindê Nambikwara Sabanê
Purian	Puri Coroado Waitaká ?
Yanomaman	Ninam Sanumá Yanomamö Yaroamë Yanomám
Others	Aikanã Arutani Baenan Cabixi Guató Irantxe Kadiwéu Kanamarí Katawixi Kwaza Otí Pirahã Tarairiú Ticuna Xukuru

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Italics indicate extinct languages

v t e Indigenous languages of Northeast Brazil
Families	Tupian Kariri Kipeá Dzubukuá Sabujá Kamurú Macro-Jê Jê Trans–São Francisco Kamakã Kamakã Masakará Maxakalían Pataxó Pataxó-Hãhãhãe Maxakalí Koropó Malalí Kapoxó Makoní Krenak Krenak Gueren Nakrehé Xukuruan Xukuru Paratió
Isolates or unclassified	Natú (Wakoná) (Wasu) Pankararú Tuxá (Truká) (Kapinawá) Wamoé (Atikum) Kambiwá Xocó Yaté (Fulniô) Baenan Kaimbé Katembri Tarairiú (Tremembé) Gamela
Proposed groupings	Je–Tupi–Carib Katembri–Taruma
Italics indicate extinct languages, (brackets) indicate unattested languages

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