Monde languages
{{Short description|Tupian language branch of Brazil}}
{{Expand Portuguese|Línguas mondés|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox language family
| name = Monde
| region = Brazil
| familycolor = tupian
| fam1 = Tupian
| glotto = mond1266
| glottorefname = Monde
}}
The Monde languages of Brazil form a branch of the Tupian language family.
Cinta Larga is a dialect cluster spoken by a thousand people{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}. Other languages are Mondé, Aruáshi, Suruí, Zoro, and Gavião do Jiparaná.
Classification
Internal classification of the Mondé languages according to Moore (2005):Moore, Denny. 2005. [http://www.etnolinguistica.org/artigo:moore-2005 Classificação interna da família lingüística Mondé]. Estudos Lingüísticos 34: 515-520. ([http://www.etnolinguistica.org/local--files/artigo:moore-2005/moore_2005_monde.pdf PDF])
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- Mondé
- Suruí (Paíter)
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- Salamãy (Mondé)
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- Cinta Larga (3 groups: Kabínééy, Kakínééy, and Maamééy)
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- Gavião de Rondônia (Ikolééy)
- Zoró (Pãgɨñééy)
- Aruá
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Unclassified: Arara do Guariba
Varieties
Below is a list of Mondé language varieties listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.{{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}}
- Mondé - spoken on the Ouro River, tributary of the Pimenta Bueno River, Rondônia.
- Sanamaica / Salamay - spoken on the left bank of the Pimenta Bueno River.
- Aruá - spoken on the Branco River near São Luís, Rondônia.
- Digüt - spoken on the left bank of the Machado River.
- Aruáshi - spoken by the neighbors of the Tupari tribe at the sources of the Branco River.
Kabanae (spoken by the "Arara nation" according to Johann Natterer) and Matanau, are both extinct Monde languages that were spoken at the mouth of the Aripuanã River. Word lists of Kabanae and Matanau were collected by Johann Natterer in 1829 during his expedition into the Madeira River (Jolkesky 2016: 640-641).Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. [http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:jolkesky-2016-arqueoecolinguistica Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas]. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.
Jolkesky (2016) also observed some similarities between the Arara do Rio Branco and the Monde languages; however, Arara do Rio Branco remains unclassified.