Krahô dialect

Krahô
Mehĩ jarkwa
Pronunciation[mẽˈhĩ jaɾˈkʰwa]
Native toBrazil
RegionTocantins
EthnicityKrahô
Native speakers
2,000 (2020): 11 
Language codes
ISO 639-3xra
Glottologkrah1246
ELPKrahô
Krahô is a dialect of the Canela-Krahô language

Krahô (Krahô: Mehĩ jarkwa [mẽˈhĩ jaɾˈkʰwa]: 74 ) 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.

Phonology

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
Close-mid e ẽ ɤ o õ
Open-mid ɛ ʌ ɔ
Open a ã

Consonants

Labial Dental/
Alveolar		 Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop voiceless p t̪ tʃ k ʔ
aspirated kʰ
Fricative ɦ
Nasal m n̪ ŋ
Flap ɾ
Approximant ʋ ~ w j

References

  1. ↑ Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (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 (PDF) (MA thesis). Araguaína: Universidade Federal do Tocantins.
  3. ↑ Albuquerque, Francisco Edviges; Krahô, Renato Yahé (2016). Gramática Pedagógica Krahô. Pontes Editores.