No dialectal differences are known. Extinct varieties such as Kapoxó, Kumanaxó, Makuní, Panháme, and the 19th century "Maxakalí", which were sometimes taken to be dialectesdialects of Maxakalí, are now generally considered to represent a distinct variety of the [[Maxakalían|Maxakalían family]], very close to [[Ritual Maxakalí language|Ritual Maxakalí]].<ref name="Silva-2020"/>{{rp|39–42}} [[Curt Nimuendaju]] collected a wordlist of a variety known as ''Mašakarí/Monačóbm'' in 1939, which was shown by Araújo (1996) to be an early attestion of Maxakalí.<ref name="Araújo-1996">{{cite journal |last=Araújo |first=Gabriel Antunes |date=1996 |title=Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos |url=http://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/artigo%3Aaraujo-1996/araujo_1996_masakari.pdf |journal=Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos |volume=31 |pages=5–31}}</ref>
Spoken Maxakalí is different from the variety used in the Maxakalí ritual songs, [[Ritual Maxakalí]], though both are classified as [[Maxakalían]] languages.
