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Kaimbé is an extinctunclassified language of eastern Brazil. The ethnic population numbered an estimated 1,100 to 1,400 in 1986. The language is scarcely attested; in 1961 one elder was able to remember a few single words mixed withKiriri.

The district of Caimbé inEuclides da Cunha, Bahia is named after the tribe.

Kaimbé words collected from an elderly rememberer in Massacará,Euclides da Cunha, Bahia by Wilbur Pickering in 1961:^[2]

Portuguese gloss (original)	English gloss (translated)	Kaimbé
fogo	fire	ˈlumi
fumo	smoke	buzʌ̨
ave, (tipoaracuão?)	bird (rufous-vented ground cuckoo?)	kwakwι
barraco	house, shed	toˈkaya
caça (gambá?)	wild game (possum?)	koˈřoa
deus	God	ˈmeutipʌ̨
rede	net	kiˈsε

• Alain Fabre, 2005,Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: KAIMBÉ[1]

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