Boanarí language

Boanarí
Boanarí
Bonari
Native to	Brazil
Region	Amazonas
Extinct	1870s
Language family	Cariban Atruahí–Boanarí Boanarí; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	bona1255

Extinct Cariban language

Boanarí (Bonari) is an extinct and poorly attested Cariban language, extinct since the 1870s.^[1] It is closely related to Waimiri-Atroarí (Yawaperí).^[2]^[3] It is known only from a short wordlist published in 1875.^[4]

References

^ a b Girard, Victor James (1971). Proto-Carib Phonology (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley.
^ "Glottolog 5.2 - Bonari". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-11-07.
^ Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher, eds. (2007). "The native languages of South America". Atlas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.). ISBN 9781315829845.
^ Brazil. Commissão do Madeira; Souza, Francisco Bernardino de (1874). Pará e Amazonas, pelo encarregado dos trabalhos ethnographicos. Columbia University Libraries. Rio de Janeiro, Typographia nacional.

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[:0-1] Girard, Victor James (1971). Proto-Carib Phonology (Thesis). University of California, Berkeley.

[2] "Glottolog 5.2 - Bonari". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-11-07.

[3] Asher, R. E.; Moseley, Christopher, eds. (2007). "The native languages of South America". Atlas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.). ISBN 9781315829845.

[4] Brazil. Commissão do Madeira; Souza, Francisco Bernardino de (1874). Pará e Amazonas, pelo encarregado dos trabalhos ethnographicos. Columbia University Libraries. Rio de Janeiro, Typographia nacional.