Xakriabá language
| Xakriabá | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Minas Gerais |
| Ethnicity | Xakriabá people |
| Extinct | 1864 |
Macro-Jê
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xkr |
| Glottolog | xakr1238 |
| ELP | Xakriabá |
Xakriabá (also called Chakriaba, Chikriaba, Shacriaba or Shicriabá) is an extinct or dormant Akuwẽ (Central Jê) language (Jê, Macro-Jê) formerly spoken in Minas Gerais, Brazil by the Xakriabá people, who today speak Portuguese. The language is known through two short wordlists collected by Augustin Saint-Hilaire and Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege.: 14
The last confirmed native speaker of the language died in 1864.