{{Short description|Extinct Macro-Jê language of Brazil}} {{Infobox language | name = Masakará | nativename = | states = Brazil | region = Bahia | extinct = ? | familycolor = macro-je | fontcolor = white | fam1 = Macro-Jê | fam2 = Kamakã | iso3 = none | glotto = masa1311 | glottorefname = Masacara }}

'''Masakará''' is an extinct language related to Kamakã. It is one of the Macro-Jê languages of Brazil.<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> It was once spoken south of the city of Juazeiro and at the old mission of Saco dos Morcegos (present-day Mirandela, Banzaê, near Ribeira do Pombal, Bahia State).<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>

The district of Massacará in Euclides da Cunha, Bahia is named after the tribe.

Martins (2007)<ref name="Martins-Kamakan">Martins, Andérbio Márcio Silva. 2007. [https://www.academia.edu/89199059/Revis%C3%A3o_da_fam%C3%ADlia_ling%C3%BC%C3%ADstica_Kamak%C3%A3_do_tronco_Macro_J%C3%AA ''Revisão da Família Lingüística Kamakã Proposta por Chestmir Loukotka''.] MA thesis, University of Brasília.</ref> classifies Masakará as the most divergent of the Kamakã languages.

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{{Languages of Brazil}} {{NE Brazil languages}} {{Macro-Jê languages}}

Category:Extinct languages of South America Category:Kamakã languages Category:Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil

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