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Nukini language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3346231 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nukini (Nukuini, Nuquini) is an obsolescent Panoan language of Brazil. In some historical texts the Nukini are also referred to as Inucuini, Nucuiny, Nukuini, Nucuini, Inocú-inins and Remo.

As a result of contact with outsiders, there are currently few who speak Nukini as a mother tongue. The Nukini stopped passing on the language to their descendants, and the current generation speaks Portuguese. The language has been taught in schools since 2000.

Phonology

Consonants

Orthography

The language uses 18 letters.

Editorial summary

“Nukini language” enters the record as language. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nukini and language can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nukini and language.
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Why this record matters

“Nukini language” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nukini and language provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3346231. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Nukini language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.