| Dzubukuá | |
| Nativename: | Kiriri |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Extinct: | mid-20th century |
| Iso3: | none |
| Iso3comment: | (included in [kzw]) |
| Lc1: | tgv |
| Ld1: | Tingui-Botó[1] |
| Glotto: | dzub1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Dzubukuá |
Dzubukuá (Dzubucua), or Kiriri, is an extinct Karirian language of Brazil. It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single Kariri language. A short grammatical description is available.
It was spoken on the São Francisco River islands, in the Cabrobó area of Pernambuco.
Phonology of the Dzubukuá language:[2]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Liquid | lateral | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Vowel sounds are presented as [i, ɨ, u, e, o, a] and [œ] which is written out as a double vowel oe. Nasal vowels are pronounced as [ɐ̃, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ] along with nasalized double vowels oê and aê, not pronounced as diphthongs, but as nasalized monophthongs [œ̃, æ̃].