Trans-Araguaia languages

{{Short description|Proposed subgroup of the Northern Jê languages}}

{{Infobox language family

| name = Trans-Araguaia

| region = Pará, Mato Grosso

| familycolor = macro-je

| fontcolor = white

| fam1 = Macro-Jê

| fam2 =

| fam3 = Cerrado

| fam4 = Jê of Goyaz

| fam5 = Northern Jê

| fam6 = Trans-Tocantins

| child1 = Mẽbêngôkre (Kayapó)

| child2 = Tapajós (Kĩsêdjê, Tapayúna)

| glotto = none

| glottorefname =

}}

The Trans-Araguaia languages are a proposed subgroup of the Northern Jê languages, which comprises three languages spoken to the west of the Araguaia River: Mẽbêngôkre, Kĩsêdjê, and Tapayúna.{{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=Ph.D. dissertation |location=Brasília |publisher=Universidade de Brasília}}{{rp|7}} It is subdivided in a binary manner into Mẽbêngôkre and the Tapajós subbranch, which comprises Kĩsêdjê and Tapayúna. Together with Apinajé, the Trans-Araguaia languages make up the Trans-Tocantins branch of Northern Jê.

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{{Macro-Jê languages}}

Category:Jê languages

Category:Languages of Brazil

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