Krahô (Krahô: Mehĩ jarkwa [mẽˈhĩ jaɾˈkʰwa][2]: 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.
| Krahô | |
|---|---|
| Mehĩ jarkwa | |
| Pronunciation | [mẽˈhĩ jaɾˈkʰwa] |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Tocantins |
| Ethnicity | Krahô |
Native speakers | 2000 (2020)[1]: 11 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xra |
| Glottolog | krah1246 |
| ELP | Krahô |
Phonology
editVowels
edit| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ | |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | (ə) | ɤ | o õ |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ | |
| Open | a ã | |||
- A short /a/ can have an allophone of a mid-central sound [ə].
Consonants
edit| 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 | ||||
- /ʋ/ is realized as [w] when occurring in between vowels.[3]
References
edit- ^ Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Albuquerque, Francisco Edviges; Krahô, Renato Yahé (2016). Gramática Pedagógica Krahô. Pontes Editores.