Parkatêjê dialect

Parkatêjê
Pará Gavião
Native toBrazil
RegionPará
EthnicityParkatêjê
Native speakers
12 (2019)[1]: 10 
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologtimb1254

Parkatêjê, or Pará Gavião, is a Timbira variety of the language family of Brazil. It is spoken by 12[1]: 10  individuals in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria (Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará). It is closely related to Kỳikatêjê, spoken by another Timbira group in the same reservation. Parkatêjê has been described and documented by Leopoldina Araújo[2][3] and, more recently, by other researchers from the Federal University of Pará.

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants of Parkatêjê[4][5]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive p t k ʔ
Nasal m n
Liquid ɾ
Approximant w j h

Parkatêjê (and Kỳikatêjê) differ from all other Timbira varieties in lacking a contrast between /k/ and /kʰ/. Moreover, the glottal stop /ʔ/ in Parkatêjê may not occupy the coda position of a syllable, which Ribeiro-Silva (2020) attributes to loss of Proto-Timbira in codas in Parkatêjê.[6]

Vowels

Vowels of Parkatêjê[4][5]
Front Central Back
plain nasal plain nasal plain nasal
Close i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
Close-mid e o õ
Mid ə ə̃
Open-mid ɛ ɜ ɔ
Open a

References

  1. ^ a b Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
  2. ^ Araújo, Leopoldina M. S. de (1989). Aspectos da língua gavião-jê (Ph.D. dissertation). Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
  3. ^ Araújo, Leopoldina (2016). Dicionário Parkatêjê–Português. Belém. ISBN 978-85-910871-0-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ a b "PHOIBLE 2.0". phoible.org. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  5. ^ a b Ferreira, Marília de Nazaré de Oliveira (2003). Estudo Morfossintático da Língua Parkatêjê (phd thesis). Campinas: Univ. doi:10.47749/T/UNICAMP.2003.294340.
  6. ^ Ribeiro-Silva, Nandra (2020). Reconstrução fonológica do Proto-Timbira (Ph.D. dissertation). Belém: Universidade Federal do Pará.