| Xakriabá | |
| Region: | Minas Gerais |
| States: | Brazil |
| Extinct: | 1864 |
| Ethnicity: | Xakriabá people |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Macro-Jê |
| Fam2: | Jê |
| Fam3: | Cerrado |
| Fam4: | Akuwẽ (Central Jê) |
| Iso3: | xkr |
| Glotto: | xakr1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Xakriaba |
Xakriabá (also called Chakriaba, Chikriaba, Shacriaba or Shicriabá)[1] is an extinct or dormant Akuwẽ (Central Jê) language (Jê, Macro-Jê) formerly spoken in Minas Gerais, Brazil by the Xakriabá people, who today speak Portuguese. The language is known through two short wordlists collected by Augustin Saint-Hilaire and Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege.[2]
The last confirmed native speaker of the language died in 1864.
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ | u ũ | |
| Mid | e ẽ | ə | o õ | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a ã |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | |||
| voiced | b | d | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | (ʃ) | h | |||
| voiced | z | (ʒ) | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | (j) | |||||
Before 1712, Xakriabá was originally spoken along the São Francisco River near São Romão, Minas Gerais (Saint-Hilaire 2000: 340-341).[4] The Xakriabá were then forced to migrate after being defeated by and other Paulistas from 1690 onwards. In 1819, Saint-Hilaire (1975: 145)[5] noted that the Xakriabá of Triângulo Mineiro region spoke a Xerente dialect.[6]