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Kanoê or Kapishana is a nearly extinct language isolate of Brazil. The Kapishana people now speak Portuguese or other indigenous languages from intermarriage.The language names are also spelled Kapixana Kapixanã and Canoé the last shared with Awa-Canoeiro.For a long time Kanoê was too poorly attested to classify. Various proposals were advanced on little evidence; Price (1978) for example thought Kanoê might be one of the Nambikwaran languages.