Bakairí (Bacairí) is a Cariban language, spoken by the Bakairi people in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil.
Bakairí | |
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Bacairí | |
Kurâ | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Mato Grosso |
Native speakers | (950 cited 1999)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bkq |
Glottolog | baka1277 |
ELP | Bakairí |
Phonology
editThe consonant and vowel inventories for Eastern Bakairí are shown below.[2]
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | h | ||
voiced | z | (ʒ) | ||||
Nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | |||
Liquid | rhotic | ɾ | ||||
lateral | l | |||||
Glide | w | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Low | a |
Syntax
editBaikarí word order is either subject–object–verb or object–verb–subject.[3]
Notes
edit- ^ Bakairí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Meira 2005.
- ^ "Bakairí". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
References
edit- Faria, Geraldo Pinto De, Junior (2022). A Grammar of the Bakairi Language (PhD thesis). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. doi:10.48273/lot0609. ISBN 978-94-6093-394-3.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Meira, Sérgio (2005). "Reconstructing Pre-Bakairi Segmental Phonology". Anthropological Linguistics. 47 (3): 261–291. JSTOR 25132338.