Krahô dialect
Appearance
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Krahô | |
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Mehĩ jarkwa | |
Pronunciation | [mẽˈhĩ jaɾˈkʰwa] |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Tocantins |
Ethnicity | Krahô |
Native speakers | 2000 (2020)[1]: 11 |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xra |
Glottolog | krah1246 |
ELP | Krahô |
![Krahô is a dialect of the Canela-Krahô language](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Macro-Ge_languages.png/220px-Macro-Ge_languages.png)
Krahô (Krahô: Mehĩ jarkwa [mẽˈhĩ jaɾˈkʰwa][2]: 74 ) is a dialect of the Canela-Krahô language, a Timbira variety of the Northern Jê language group (Jê, Macro-Jê) spoken in Tocantins, Brazil by the Krahô people.
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | ||
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Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ | |
Close-mid | e ẽ | (ə) | ɤ | o õ |
Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |
Open | a ã |
- A short /a/ can have an allophone of a mid-central sound [ə].
Consonants
[edit]Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop | voiceless | p | t̪ | tʃ | k | ʔ |
aspirated | kʰ | |||||
Fricative | ɦ | |||||
Nasal | m | n̪ | ŋ | |||
Flap | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | ʋ ~ w | j |
- /ʋ/ is realized as [w] when occurring in between vowels.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
- ^ Leite, Marília Fernanda Pereira (2015). O Ensino de L2 na escola indígena 19 de abril: uma análise sobre as políticas e linguísticas na perspectiva dos Krahô da aldeia Manoel Alves (PDF) (MA thesis). Araguaína: Universidade Federal do Tocantins.
- ^ Albuquerque, Francisco Edviges; Krahô, Renato Yahé (2016). Gramática Pedagógica Krahô. Pontes Editores.