Cabixi language

{{Short description|Extinct and unclassified language of Brazil}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Cabixi

| familycolor = american

| iso3 = none

| glotto = cabi1242

| altname = Cabixi-Natterer

| family = unclassified

| states = Brazil

| region = Mato Grosso

| era = attested 19th century

}}

Cabixi is an extinct and unclassified language, formerly spoken on the Steinen River in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.{{Cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |url=http://www.etnolinguistica.org/biblio:loukotka-1968-classification |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |date=1968 |publisher=Los Angeles : University of California, Latin American Center}} It is known only from a list of words collected by Johann Natterer.{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 5.2 - Cabixi-Natterer |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cabi1242 |access-date=2025-05-29 |website=glottolog.org}} It may have been tonal.{{Cite book |last=Adelaar |first=Willem F. H. |url=https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/71532 |title=Archiv 63-64 |last2=Brijnen |first2=Hélène B. |date=2014 |isbn=978-3-643-99824-8 |editor-last=Weltmuseum Wien Friends |chapter=Natterer’s Linguistic Heritage}}