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 = Kimdá

| iso3 = none

| glotto = inga1253

| glottorefname = Ingain-Kimda

}}

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. Ingain was spoken along the middle Paraná River, from the Iguatemi River in the north to the Arroyo Yabebiry in the south.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.{{rp|15}}

Related "South Kaingáng" languages were:{{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}}

• 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).{{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}}