Bakairi language
| Bakairí | |
|---|---|
| Bacairí, Bacaïri | |
| Kurâ | |
| Pronunciation | [baka.iˈɾi] |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Mato Grosso |
| Ethnicity | Bakairi people |
Native speakers | (950 cited 1999)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bkq |
| Glottolog | baka1277 |
| ELP | Bakairí |
Bakairi is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Bakairí (Bacairí) is a Cariban language, spoken by the Bakairi people in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil.
Phonology
The consonant and vowel inventories for Bakairí are shown below.[3]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | h | ||
| voiced | z | (ʒ) | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | |||
| Liquid | rhotic | ɾ | ||||
| lateral | l | |||||
| Glide | w | j | ||||
/ʔ/ is only heard in the western dialect.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Mid | e ẽ | ə ə̃ | o õ |
| Low | a ã |
Sounds /ɨ, ɨ̃/ are only heard in the eastern dialect.
Syntax
Baikarí word order is either subject–object–verb or object–verb–subject.[4]
Notes
- ^ Bakairí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Faria 2022, p. 16.
- ^ Meira 2005.
- ^ "Bakairí". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
References
- 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.
{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Meira, Sérgio (2005). "Reconstructing Pre-Bakairi Segmental Phonology". Anthropological Linguistics. 47 (3): 261–291. JSTOR 25132338.