Rikbaktsa language

Rikbaktsá
erigpaksá
Native to	Brazil
Region	Mato Grosso
Ethnicity	Rikbaktsa people
Native speakers	40 (2010)^[1]
Language family	Macro-Gê Ofaie Rikbaktsá
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`rkb`
Glottolog	`rikb1245`^[2]

The Rikbaktsa language, also spelled Aripaktsa, Erikbatsa, Erikpatsa and known ambiguously as Canoeiro, is a language spoken by the Rikbaktsa people of the Mato Grosso, Brazil, that forms its own branch of the Macro-Gê languages.

As in other languages of the area, word endings indicate the gender of the speaker.^[3] Rikbaksta is a subject-object-verb language. ^[4]

Most Rikbaktsa can speak both Rikbaktsa and Portuguese. Younger individuals tend to speak Portuguese more frequently and fluently than their elders, but older individuals generally struggle with Portuguese and use it only with non-indigenous Brazilians.^[3]

References

^ Rikbaktsá at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Rikbaktsá". Glottolog 2.2. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
^ ^a ^b Arruda, Rinaldo S.V. "Rikbaktsa: Language." In Encyclopedia of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil. Instituto Socioambiental (November 1998).
^ https://www.ethnologue.com/language/rkb/***EDITION***

Macro-Jê languages

Jê

Northern	Jaikó

Central	Acroa Xakriabá Xavante Xerente

Northwest	Apinayé Canela Kreye Mẽbengokre Panará Suyá Timbira

Kaingáng	Guayana Ingain Kaingáng São Paulo Kaingáng Xokleng

Krenák

Borôro

Kamakã

Karirí

Maxakalían

Purían

Coropó
Purí

Yabutian

Other

Karajá
Ofayé
Rikbaktsá

Italics indicate extinct languages

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Rikbaktsa language