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Akuntsu is a Tupian language of Brazil.[2] Peaceful contact with the Akuntsu people was only made in 1995; they had been massacred by cattle ranchers in the 1980s. The Akuntsu language is spoken only by members of the tribe and not fully understood by any outsider.[3]
It is considered unlikely that the Akuntsu language or culture will survive following the deaths of the tribe's remaining members.[4] For this reason several observers have described the tribe as the victims of genocide.[5] The neighbouring Kanoê have been similarly reduced in number through contact with settlers,[6] as were the people of a man recently encountered living alone in the Igarapé Omerê reserve who is apparently the sole survivor of his tribe.[7][8]
Aragon, Carolina Coelho (2014). A grammar of Akuntsú, a Tupían language (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaii at Manoa. hdl:10125/101050.
External links
Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Akuntsú". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.