Irantxe language

Irántxe
Irántxe-Mỹky
Manoki, Mỹky
Native toBrazil
RegionMato Grosso
Ethnicity280 Irántxe and 80 Münkü (2012)
Native speakers
90, including 10 Irántxe proper (2012)
Dialects
  • Mỹky
  • Iránxte (Manoki)
Latin (Mỹky)
Language codes
ISO 639-3irn
Glottologiran1263
ELPIrantxe
Iranxe is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Irántxe (Irántxe, Iranxe, Iranshe) /iˈrɑːn/, also known as Mỹky (Münkü) or still as Irántxe-Münkü, is an indigenous language spoken by the Irántxe (Iránxe, Iranche, Manoki, Munku) and Mỹky (Mynky, Münkü, Munku, Menku, Kenku, Myy) peoples in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil. Recent descriptions of the language analyze it as a language isolate, in that it "bears no similarity with other language families". Monserrat (2010) is a well-reviewed grammar of the language.