Southern Kayapó language
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| Southern Kayapó | |
|---|---|
| Kayapó do Sul | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Triângulo Mineiro, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo |
| Ethnicity | Southern Kayapó |
| Era | attested 19th century developed into Panará[1] |
Macro-Jê
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kre (as Panará) |
| Glottolog | pana1307 (as Panará)[3] |
Kayapó do Sul is a Jê language formerly spoken by the Southern Kayapó people of Brazil in a vast region that comprised Triângulo Mineiro, Goiás, southeastern Mato Grosso, northeastern Mato Grosso do Sul, and northeastern São Paulo (Brazil), in particular on the rivers Rio Turvo, Corumbá, Meia Ponte, Tijuco, Rio das Velhas, Rio Pardo, Sucuriju, Aparé, Rio Verde, and Taquari.[2]:12 It can be considered to have developed into the Panará language.[1]
Dialects
Two dialects have been identified based on the scarce documentation of the language. The variety spoken in São José de Mossâmedes (as attested by Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl[4] and Augustin Saint-Hilaire in short wordlists) is characterized by the retention of the Proto-Goyaz Jê rhotic *r. In contrast, the variety spoken in Santana do Paranaíba (as attested by Kupfer,[5] Carl Nehring,[6] and Joaquim Lemos da Silva in short wordlists) and in the Triângulo Mineiro region (as documented by Barbosa in an extensive wordlist) innovated by palatalizing the rhotic (i.e. *r > j) in certain environments and is thought to be the ancestor of Panará.[1]
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, ĩ | ɨ, ɨ̃ | u, ũ |
| Mid | e, ẽ | ə | o, õ |
| Open | a, ã |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| prenasal | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᵑk | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | ||||
| prenasal | ⁿt͡s | |||||
| Fricative | (s) | ʃ | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Sonorant | w | ɾ | j | h | ||
/ʃ/ exists only in the Mossâmedes dialect. /ɲ, ŋ, h/ exist only in the Santana dialect.
- /t͡s, ⁿt͡s/ can be heard as [s, ⁿs] in free variation.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Vasconcelos, Eduardo Alves (2013). Investigando a hipótese Cayapó do Sul-Panará (PDF) (PhD dissertation). Campinas: Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (PhD dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "(as Panará)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Search this book on
- ↑ POHL, J. E. Reise im Innern von Brasilien: auf allerhoechsten Befehl seiner Majestät des Kaisers von Österreich, Franz des Ersten, in den Jahren 1817–1821 unternommen. Vol. 1. Viena: A. Strauss’s Sel. Witwe e J. B. Wallishausser, 1832. 448 pp.
- ↑ KUPFER, Dr. Die Cayapo-Indianer in der Provinz Matto-Grosso. Zeitschrift für der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Berlim, n. 5, p. 244–254, 1870.
- ↑ NEHRING, C. Sud-Cayapo: Wörterlisten. In: EHRENREICH, P. Materialen Zur Sprachekunde Brasiliens. Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, n. 26, p. 136–137, 1894.
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