Tarairiú | |
Nativename: | Otschukayana |
States: | Brazil |
Region: | Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará |
Extinct: | ? |
Familycolor: | American |
Family: | unclassified |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | tara1303 |
Glottoname: | Tarairiú |
Glotto2: | jeni1237 |
Glottoname2: | Jenipapo-Kaninde |
Tarairiú (Caratiú) is an extinct and very poorly known language of eastern Brazil. The Tarairiu nation was divided into several tribes: the Janduí, Kanindé, Paiaku (Pajacú, Bajacú), Jenipapo, Jenipabuçu, Javó, Kamaçu, Tukuriju, Ariu, and "Xukuru" / Xacó.
It was once spoken between the Assú River and Apodi River in Rio Grande do Norte.
Below is a list of extinct Tarairiú language varieties listed by Loukotka (1968), including names of unattested varieties.[1]
The language is attested only through a few word lists. A few words resemble those of neighboring Kariri (and other Macro-Je) and Xukuru languages, but not enough to support a genealogical connection. Kaufman (1994) reports that "not even Greenberg dares classify this language".
Some of the recorded words:
Gloss | Tarairiú[2] | |
---|---|---|
'water' | teu | |
'fire' | kiro-kia, intoá | |
'stone' | kebra | |
'head' | kreká | |
'hair' | unj | |
'ear' | bandulak | |
'eye' | pigó | |
'nose' | korõza | |
'mouth' | moz | |
'tooth' | cidolé | |
'hand' | koreké | |
'foot' | poyá | |
'man' | xenupre | |
'woman' | moela, moéça | |
'son' | ako | |
'house' | sok | |
'eat' | kringó | |
'sleep' | gonyã |
Resemblances with Macro-Jê languages are in kebra 'stone' (Proto-Je *kɛn), kreká 'head' (*krã), koreké 'hand' (*-ĩkra), and poyá 'foot' (*par). Resemblances with Xukuru are kiro- 'fire' (Xukuru kiyo), kringó 'eat' (kringgo 'feed'), sok 'house' (šekh).
Loukotka (1968) gives three words in Tarairiú:[3]
For a more extensive vocabulary list of Tarairiú by de Souza (2009),[4] see the corresponding Portuguese article.
An alternative list of Tarairiú words compared with "Jê" dialects and Cariri, compiled by the Paraíba historian José Elias Barbosa Borges, is given in Medeiros (1999):[5]
Portuguese gloss (original) | English gloss (translated) | Tarairiú | Jê dialects | Cariri | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
água | water | kaité | nko | dzu | |
cabeça | head | kreká | krã | tçambu | |
cabelo | hair | unj | sun | dü | |
casa | house | sekri | ikré | crá | |
comer | eat | kringó | khrem | ami | |
dormir | sleep | gon-yá | nogon | uni | |
filho | son | ako | ikra | inhurae | |
fogo | fire | kiró, kia | korru, kuwi | isu | |
mão | hand | koreke | bkhra | müsã | |
mulher | woman | krippó | mprom, piko | tidzi | |
nariz | nose | sikrin | khra | naembi | |
olho | eye | aço | nto | do | |
orelha | ear | bandulak | mpak | benhé | |
pé | foot | poiá | par | bü |
. Čestmír Loukotka . Classification of South American Indian languages . registration . UCLA Latin American Center . 1968 . Los Angeles.
. Čestmír Loukotka . Classification of South American Indian languages . registration . UCLA Latin American Center . 1968 . Los Angeles.