Ingain language

Ingain
Native toBrazil
RegionSanta Catarina
Extinctearly 20th century?
Dialects
  • Kimdá
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologinga1253

Ingain is an extinct language of Brazil, closely related to the Southern Jê languages Kaingáng and Laklãnõ (Xokléng). Kimdá may have been a dialect. Ingain was spoken along the middle Paraná River, from the Iguatemi River in the north to the Arroyo Yabebiry in the south.:15

Related "South Kaingáng" languages were:

  • Guayana / Wayana / Gualachí / Guanhanan - extinct language once spoken between the Uruguay River and Paraná River, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Amhó or Ivitorocái - extinct language from Riacho Ivitoracái, Paraguay. Listed as separate from the Ingain cluster by Mason (1950).