Kipeá language

Kipeá (Quipea), or Kariri, is an extinct Karirian language of Brazil. It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single Kariri language. A short grammatical treatise is available.

Kipeá is well documented by Luiz Mamiani, a Jesuit priest who wrote a grammar and catechism of the Kipeá language during the late 1600s.

Phonology of the Kipeá language:

A voiced plosive [ɡ] can have an allophone of [ŋ].

The morphology of the Kipeá language is predominantly isolating and analytic, unusual for a language native to the Americas.

• Dzubukuá language

• Ribeiro, E. R. (2010). Tapuya connections: language contact in eastern Brazil. LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 9(1), 61-76.doi:10.20396/liames.v9i1.1463

• Kariri dictionary
• 1877 reprint of grammar