Pará Gavião is part of the Timbira (Northern Jê) dialect cluster of Brazil.
Pará Gavião | |
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Native to | Brazil |
Region | Maranhão, Pará, Tocantins |
Ethnicity | Gavião |
Native speakers | 600–700 (2020)[1] |
Macro-Jê
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Dialects | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gvp |
Glottolog | para1315 |
ELP |
Varieties
editLinguistic varieties of Gavião include:[1]
- Krĩkatí, spoken in Terra Indígena Krikati, Maranhão
- Pykobjê, 600 speakers in Terra Indígena Governador close to Amarante, Maranhão
- Parkatêjê, 12 speakers in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria, Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará
- Kỳikatêjê, 9 speakers in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria, Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará
See Timbira language for details.
References
edit- ^ a b Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.