Baenan

Baenan, also spelled Baena or Baenan, is an extinct and unclassified language formerly spoken by the Baenan people of Bahia, Brazil. The Baenan were first documented in 1927 when the Paraguacu indigenous post was established, and the anthropologist Curt Nimuendaju recorded their culture as resembling the neighboring Pataxo while noting the two peoples were linguistically distinct; most of the community died soon after being relocated to the post. By 1961 a single Baenan woman remained alive but could no longer supply language data, and descendants are today integrated into the Pataxo Ha-Ha-Hae people. The entire surviving linguistic record is nine words that Nimuendaju recorded in 1938, covering basic vocabulary such as fire, jaguar and venison, leaving the language's wider relationships unrecoverable.