37.2567, Books: The Makú Language of the Auari River, Northern Amazonia: Zamponi (2026)

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Date: 04-Aug-2026
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: The Makú Language of the Auari River, Northern Amazonia: Zamponi (2026)


Title: The Makú Language of the Auari River, Northern Amazonia
Series Title: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the
Americas
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/69984

Author(s): Raoul Zamponi

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-69486-6
E-Book ISBN: 978-90-04-75524-6
DOI: 10.1163/9789004755246

Abstract:

This book provides a detailed grammatical and lexical description of
Makú (Máku), a language isolate formerly spoken in a remote region of
northern Brazilian Amazonia. Based on materials collected by
researchers since 1912, it documents a language that became extinct
around 2000 with the passing of Kuluta (Sinfrônio Magalhães). Makú
represents a remnant of a historically diverse and complex
ethnolinguistic landscape, largely erased through the expansion of
neighboring groups and colonization. The volume includes seventeen
annotated texts and is accompanied by approximately 1,000 audio
recordings, allowing direct access to 500 examples from the
grammatical description, nearly as many vocabulary items, and ten
texts, all recorded from Kuluta, providing an invaluable resource for
linguists and researchers of Amazonian languages.
Readership: This volume will appeal to linguists, anthropologists, and
researchers of Amazonian and endangered languages, as well as anyone
interested in language documentation and the preservation of
linguistic diversity.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Máku (xak, maku1246)

Language Family(ies): Maku

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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