Waitaká language

Waitaká
Goytacaz
(unattested)
Native toBrazil
RegionRio de Janeiro
EthnicityGoitacá
Extinctby 18th century
Purian ?
  • Waitaká
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
4x0
GlottologNone
  Goytacaz

Waitaká (Guaitacá, Goyatacá, Goytacaz) is an extinct language of Brazil, on the São Mateus River and near Cabo de São Tomé in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Not a word of it is known. Dialects, or at least tribal divisions, were Mopi, Yacorito, Wasu, and Miri. Loukotka (1968) suggests it may have been one of the Purian languages, though others consider this classification "circumstantial".