# Bonari language

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{{Short description|Extinct Cariban language}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Bonari
| nativename       = 
| states           = [Brazil](/source/Brazil)
| region           = [Amazonas](/source/Amazonas_(Brazilian_state))
| ethnicity        = 
| extinct          = 1870s
| ref              = <ref name=":0" />
| familycolor      = Cariban
| fam1             = [Cariban](/source/Cariban_languages)
| fam2             = [Atruahí](/source/Waimiri-Atroar%C3%AD_language)–Bonari
| iso3             = none
| glotto           = bona1255
| glottorefname    = Bonari
}}

'''Bonari''' is an extinct and poorly attested [Cariban language](/source/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](/source/Waimiri-Atroar%C3%AD_language) (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}}

==References==
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Category:Cariban languages
Category:Extinct languages of South America
{{Cariban languages}}{{Languages of Brazil}}

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