Krahô dialect

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 toBrazil
RegionTocantins
EthnicityKrahô
Native speakers
2000 (2020)[1]: 11 
Language codes
ISO 639-3xra
Glottologkrah1246
ELPKrahô

Phonology

Vowels
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
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
  1. Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
  2. 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.
  3. Albuquerque, Francisco Edviges; Krahô, Renato Yahé (2016). Gramática Pedagógica Krahô. Pontes Editores.
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