Bonari language

{{Short description|Extinct Cariban language}} {{Infobox language | name = Bonari | nativename = | states = Brazil | region = Amazonas | ethnicity = | extinct = 1870s | ref = <ref name=":0" /> | familycolor = Cariban | fam1 = Cariban | fam2 = Atruahí–Bonari | iso3 = none | glotto = bona1255 | glottorefname = Bonari }}

'''Bonari''' is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language, extinct since the 1870s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite thesis|last=Girard |first=Victor James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Em1KAQAAMAAJ |title=Proto-Carib Phonology |date=1971 |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |language=en}}</ref> It is closely related to Waimiri-Atroarí (Yawaperí).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 5.2 - Bonari |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bona1255 |access-date=2025-11-07 |website=glottolog.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.routledge.com/Atlas-of-the-Worlds-Languages/Asher-Moseley/p/book/9781315829845 |title=Atlas of the World's Languages |year=2007 |isbn=9781315829845 |editor-last=Asher |editor-first=R. E. |edition=2nd |language=en |chapter=The native languages of South America |editor-last2=Moseley |editor-first2=Christopher}}</ref> It is known only from a short wordlist published in 1874.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brazil. Commissão do Madeira |url=http://archive.org/details/paraeamazonaspel00braz |title=Pará e Amazonas, pelo encarregado dos trabalhos ethnographicos |last2=Souza |first2=Francisco Bernardino de |date=1874 |publisher=Rio de Janeiro, Typographia nacional |others=Columbia University Libraries}}</ref>{{Reference page|pages=77-78}}

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