Akuntsu language

Akuntsu
Native to	Brazil
Ethnicity	Akuntsu people
Native speakers	6 (2009)[1]
Language family	Tupian Tuparí Akuntsu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aqz
Glottolog	akun1241[2]

Akuntsu is an undocumented Tupian language of Brazil. Peaceful contact with the Akuntsu people was only made in 1995; they had been massacred by cattle ranchers in the 1980s.^[3] The Akuntsu language is spoken only by members of the tribe and not fully understood by any outsider.^[4]

It is considered unlikely that the Akuntsu language or culture will survive following the deaths of the tribe's remaining members.^[5] For this reason several observers have described the tribe as the victims of genocide.^[6] The neighbouring Kanoê have been similarly reduced in number through contact with settlers,^[7] as were the people of a man recently encountered living alone in the Igarapé Omerê reserve who is apparently the sole survivor of his tribe.^[8][9]

References

1. Akuntsu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Akuntsu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fiona-watson-were-watching-an-extinction-in-a-lifetime-1801794.html
4. Watson, Fiona (13 October 2009). "We're watching an extinction in a lifetime". The Independent. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
5. Survival International. "Akuntsu: The future". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
6. Vincent Carelli (Director) (2009). Corumbiara: They Shoot Indians, Don't They? (in Portuguese). Vídeo nas Aldeias.
7. Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). "Introduction > Kanoê". Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
8. Survival International (9 December 2009). "Last survivor of uncontacted Amazon tribe attacked". Retrieved 8 March 2011.
9. Strange, Hannah (11 December 2009). "‘Man in the Hole’, lone survivor of Amazon tribe massacre, escapes ranchers’ bullets". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 8 March 2011.