Krahô | |
Nativename: | Mehĩ jarkwa |
Pronunciation: | pronounced as /[mẽˈhĩ jaɾˈkʰwa]/ |
States: | Brazil |
Region: | Tocantins |
Ethnicity: | Krahô |
Speakers: | 2000 |
Date: | 2020 |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | American |
Fam1: | Macro-Jê |
Fam2: | Jê |
Fam3: | Cerrado |
Fam4: | Jê of Goyaz |
Fam5: | Northern Jê |
Fam6: | Timbira |
Fam7: | Canela-Krahô |
Iso3: | xra |
Glotto: | krah1246 |
Glottorefname: | Krahô |
Krahô (Krahô: Mehĩ jarkwa pronounced as /[mẽˈhĩ jaɾˈkʰwa]/[2]) 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.
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 |
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 |