Southern Kayapó language

{{Short description|Jê language of Brazil}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Southern Kayapó

| nativename =

| pronunciation =

| states = Brazil

| region = Triângulo Mineiro, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo

| era = attested 19th century

| ethnicity = Southern Kayapó

| speakers =

| date =

| ref =

| familycolor = macro-je | fontcolor = white

| fam1 = Macro-Jê

| fam2 = Jê

| fam3 = Cerrado

| fam4 = Jê of Goyaz

| isoexception = historical

| glotto = pana1307

| glottoname = (as Panará)

| altname = Kayapó do Sul

| speakers2 = developed into Panará

| dia1 = Mossâmedes

| dia2 = Triângulo (=Panará)

| iso3 = kre

| iso3comment = (as Panará)

}}

Kayapó do Sul is a Jê language formerly spoken by the Southern Kayapó people of Brazil in a vast region that comprised Triângulo Mineiro, Goiás, southeastern Mato Grosso, northeastern Mato Grosso do Sul, and northeastern São Paulo (Brazil), in particular on the rivers Rio Turvo, Corumbá, Meia Ponte, Tijuco, Rio das Velhas, Rio Pardo, Sucuriju, Aparé, Rio Verde, and Taquari.{{cite thesis|last=Nikulin |first=Andrey |date=2020 |url=http://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/tese%3Anikulin-2020/Nikulin_2020_Proto-Macro-Je.pdf |title=Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo |type=PhD dissertation |location=Brasília |publisher=Universidade de Brasília}}{{rp|12}} It can be considered to have developed into the Panará language.{{cite thesis|last=Vasconcelos |first=Eduardo Alves |date=2013 |url=http://repositorio.unicamp.br/bitstream/REPOSIP/268987/1/Vasconcelos_EduardoAlves_D.pdf |title=Investigando a hipótese Cayapó do Sul-Panará |type=PhD dissertation |location=Campinas |publisher=Universidade Estadual de Campinas}}