Gavião of Jiparaná

Gavião of Jiparaná
Gavião of Rondônia
Ikó̱ló̱éhj
Native toBrazil
RegionRondônia
Ethnicity520 Gavião (2004), 787 Zoró (2020)
Native speakers
340 (2006)
Tupian
  • Monde
    • Gavião of Jiparaná
Dialects
  • Zoró
Language codes
ISO 639-3gvo
Glottologgavi1246  Gavião do Jiparaná
zoro1244  Zoró
ELPGavião
 Zoró
Linguasphere88-EAB-ab
 88-EAB-ac
 88-EAB-ag

Gaviao of Jiparana (Gavião do Jiparaná), also known as "Digüt" (a chief's name), Ikolen and Gavião do Rondônia, or in the language itself, Ikó̱ló̱éhj, is the language of the Gavião of Rondônia, Brazil. It is a Tupian language of the Monde branch. It is partially intelligible with Suruí. The Zoró dialect spoken by the Zoró people is sometimes considered a separate language.

Phonology

Consonants

Gavião consonants
Labial Alveolar Alveolopalatal Velar Glottal
Occlusive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d g
Affricate voiceless ts tʃ
voiced dz
Fricative voiceless β
voiced
Lateral voiced l
Flap r
Approximant j

Vowels

Gavião vowels
Front Central Back
plain nasal plain nasal plain nasal
High short i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃
long iː ĩː ɨː ɨ̃ː
Mid short e ẽ o õ
long eː ẽː oː õː
Low short a ã
long aː ãː

References

  1. 1 2 Gavião of Jiparaná at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Tait, Mary (1994), Atlas of the world's languages, London; New York: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5
  3. 1 2 3 Sona-Gavião, Iram Káv (2019). Nomes, verbos, adjetivos, posposições e predicações na língua dos ikólóéhj (Gavião, Fam. Mondé, Tronco Tupí) (PDF) (masters thesis). Universidade de Brasília.