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Paraná Jê languages

branch of the Jê languages

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ98078232 ↗
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The Paraná Jê languages, also known as Jê of Paraná, are a branch of the Jê languages constituted by the extinct language Ingain and by the Southern Jê languages (Kaingang and Laklãnõ (Xokléng)).

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 33-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Paraná, languages and branch is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Paraná Jê languages” 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.