Ingain language

{{Short description|Extinct Jê language of Brazil}} {{Infobox language | name = Ingain | nativename = | states = Brazil | region = Santa Catarina | ethnicity = | extinct = early 20th century? | ref = | familycolor = macro-je | fontcolor = white | fam1 = Macro-Jê | fam2 = Jê | fam3 = Jê of Paraná | dia1 = | iso3 = none | glotto = inga1254 | glottorefname = Ingain | fam4 = Ingain–Kimdá }}

'''Ingain''' is an extinct Jê language of Brazil, closely related to the Southern Jê languages Kaingáng and Laklãnõ (Xokléng). Kimdá may have been a dialect.

== Geographical distribution == Ingain was spoken along the middle Paraná River, from the Iguatemi River in the north to the Arroyo Yabebiry in the south.<ref name="Nikulin-Macro-Je">Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. ''[http://etnolinguistica.org/local--files/tese%3Anikulin-2020/Nikulin_2020_Proto-Macro-Je.pdf Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo]''. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.</ref>{{rp|15}}

== Varieties == Related "South Kaingáng" languages were:<ref name="Loukotka">{{cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |authorlink=Čestmír Loukotka |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk |url-access=registration |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center |year=1968 |location=Los Angeles}}</ref> *'''Guayana''' / '''Wayana''' / '''Gualachí''' / '''Guanhanan''' - extinct language once spoken between the Uruguay River and Paraná River, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil *'''Amhó''' or '''Ivitorocái''' - extinct language from Riacho Ivitoracái, Paraguay. Listed as separate from the Ingain cluster by Mason (1950).<ref name="Mason-1950">{{cite book |last=Mason |first=John Alden |authorlink=John Alden Mason |date=1950 |chapter=The languages of South America |editor-first1=Julian |editor-last1=Steward |title=Handbook of South American Indians |volume=6 |pages=157–317 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143 |location=Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office}}</ref>

==See also== *Kaingang language

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Jê languages Category:Extinct languages of South America Category:Languages of Brazil Category:Languages extinct in the 20th century