{{Short description|Extinct unclassified language of Brazil}}{{Expand language|topic=|langcode=pt|otherarticle=Língua caimbé|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox language | name = Kaimbé | nativename = | states = Brazil | region = Bahia | extinct = early 20th century | ref = e25 | familycolor = American | family = unclassified | iso3 = xai | glotto = kaim1235 | glottorefname = Kaimbé | ethnicity = 1,135 {{ill|Kaimbé|pt|Caimbés}} (2020)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kaimbé - Povos Indígenas no Brasil |url=https://pib.socioambiental.org/pt/Povo:Kaimb%C3%A9 |access-date=2025-06-19 |website=pib.socioambiental.org}}</ref> }}
'''Kaimbé''' is an extinct unclassified language of eastern Brazil. The ethnic population numbered an estimated 1,100 to 1,400 in 1986. The language is scarcely attested; in 1961 one elder was able to remember a few single words mixed with Kiriri.
The district of Caimbé in Euclides da Cunha, Bahia is named after the tribe.
==Vocabulary== Kaimbé words collected from an elderly rememberer in Massacará, Euclides da Cunha, Bahia by Wilbur Pickering in 1961:<ref name="Meader-Nordeste">{{cite book |last=Meader |first=Robert E. |url=https://www.silbrazil.org/resources/archives/16988 |title=Indios do Nordeste: Levantamento sobre os remanescentes tribais do nordeste brasileiro |year=1978 |publisher=SIL International |location=Brasilia |lang=pt |archive-date=2024-10-08 |access-date=2020-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008181259/https://www.silbrazil.org/resources/archives/16988 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
:{| class="wikitable" ! Portuguese gloss <br/>(original) !! English gloss <br/>(translated) !! Kaimbé |- | fogo || fire || {{lang|xai|ˈlumi}} |- | fumo || smoke || {{lang|xai|buzʌ̨}} |- | ave, (tipo aracuão?) || bird (rufous-vented ground cuckoo?) || {{lang|xai|kʷakʷι}} |- | barraco || house, shed || {{lang|xai|toˈkaya}} |- | caça (gambá?) || wild game (possum?) || {{lang|xai|koˈřoa}} |- | deus || God || {{lang|xai|ˈme͜utipʌ̨}} |- | rede || net || {{lang|xai|kiˈsε}} |}
==References== {{Reflist}} *Alain Fabre, 2005, ''Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: KAIMBÉ''[http://www.ling.fi/Entradas%20diccionario/Dic=Kaimb%e9.pdf]{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
{{Languages of Brazil}} {{NE Brazil languages}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaimbe Language}} Category:Unclassified languages of South America Category:Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil