Kayabi language
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Kayabí | |
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Kawaiwete | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | northern Mato Grosso |
Ethnicity | 1,620 Kayabi (2006)[1] |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2006)[1] |
Tupian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kyz |
Glottolog | kaya1329 |
ELP | Kawaiwete |
Kayabí (Caiabi; also Kawaiwete) is a Tupian language spoken by the Kayabí people of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Although the Kayabi call themselves Kagwahiva, their language is not part of the Kagwahiva language.
It is spoken in the Xingu Indigenous Park and Apiaká-Kayabi Indigenous Territory.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar |
Glottal | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | p | t | k ɡ | kʷ | ʔ | |
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Fricative | f | s | ||||
Tap | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | j | w |
/f/ can also be heard as a bilabial fricative [ɸ].[2]
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
Low | a ã |
References
- ^ a b Kayabí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Souza, Patrícia de Oliveira Borges e (2004). Estudos de Aspectos da Língua Kaiabi (Tupi).
External links
- Lapierre, Myriam. 2018. Kawaiwete Field Materials. Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. doi:10.7297/X2Z036NC
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