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Timbira

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Timbira
Mehím
Apinajé boys and woman
Languages
Timbira language

Timbira refers to a number of related ethnolinguistic groups of Timbira-speaking Gê peoples native to Northern and Northeastern Brazil.[1] Among those peoples grouped under the name are the Apanyekrá, Apinajé, Kanela, Gavião (Jê), Krahô, Krinkatí, and Pukobyê.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Olson, James Stuart (1991). The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313263873.
  2. ^ "Timbira - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil". pib.socioambiental.org. Retrieved 2019-06-15.