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Xukuruan languages

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The Xukuruan languages are a language family proposed by the Czech linguist Cestmir Loukotka in 1968, linking two now-extinct languages of Alagoas state in Brazil, Xukuru and Paratio; Glottolog instead treats the two as dialects of a single Xukuru language.

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The Xukuruan languages are a language family proposed by Czech linguist Čestmír Loukotka (1968) that links two languages of Alagoas state in Brazil, Xukuru and Paratió, both of them extinct.
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