The Xerénte or Akwẽ-Xerénte language is an Akuwẽ (Central Jê) language (Jê, Macro-Jê) of Brazil.

It is spoken by the Xerente people in the Tocantins state between Rio do Sono and Rio Tocantins.

markers The nominative and emphatic forms are free morphemes with the function of subject of transitive or intransitive sentences.

The absolutive pronoun prefixes mark possessors, objects of postpositions, direct objects, subjects of nominal predicates and subjects of intransitive verbs with post-verbal operators.