Máku language of Auari
| Jukude | |
|---|---|
| Máku | |
| Jukude | |
| Pronunciation | [ʑukude] |
| Native to | Roraima, Brazil |
| Region | Brazilian–Venezuelan border |
| Ethnicity | Jukudeitse |
| Extinct | 2000, with the death of Sinfrônio Magalhães |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xak |
| Glottolog | maku1246 |
Máku is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
An unclassified language and likely language isolate, known ambiguously as Máku and natively as Jukude, was formerly spoken on the Brazil–Venezuela border in Roraima along the upper Uraricoera and lower Auari rivers, west of Boa Vista, by the Jukudeitse ([ʝokudeˈit͜se] or [ʑokudeˈit͜se]) or 'people'. The last speaker, Sinfrônio Magalhães, died in 2000. There are currently no speakers or rememberers of Jukude and no one identifies as Jukude today. Aryon Rodrigues and Ernesto Migliazza, as well as Iraguacema Lima Maciel, worked on the language, and the data was collected into a grammar by Chris Rogers published in 2020.