Mondé language

Mondé
Salamãi, Sanamaica
Native toBrazil
RegionRondônia
Ethnicity10 Salamãi (2006?)[1]
Native speakers
2 semispeakers (2014)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mnd
Glottologsala1273
ELPMondé

Mondé, or Salamãi, is a nearly extinct Tupian language of the state of Rondônia, in the Amazon region of Brazil.

Other names include Sanamaikã, Sanamaicá, Salamãi.[3]

References

  1. ^ Mondé language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. ^ The Study of tone and related phenomena in an Amazonian tone language: Gavião of Rondônia. University of Hawai'i Press. December 2014. hdl:10125/24618. ISBN 978-0-9856211-2-4.
  3. ^ 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.