Krahô dialect explained

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:
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 (, Macro-Jê) spoken in Tocantins, Brazil by the Krahô people.

Phonology

Vowels

FrontCentralBack
Closei ĩɨ ɨ̃u ũ
Close-mide ẽ(ə)ɤo õ
Open-midɛʌɔ
Opena ã

Consonants

LabialDental/
Alveolar
PalatalVelarGlottal
Stopvoicelesspkʔ
aspirated
Fricativeɦ
Nasalmŋ
Flapɾ
Approximantʋ ~ wj

Notes and References

  1. Nikulin . Andrey . 2020 . Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo . Ph.D. dissertation . Brasília . Universidade de Brasília.
  2. 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 . MA thesis . Araguaína . Universidade Federal do Tocantins.
  3. Book: Albuquerque, Francisco Edviges. Gramática Pedagógica Krahô. Krahô. Renato Yahé. Pontes Editores. 2016.