Bakairi language
Bakairí (Bacairí) is a Cariban language, spoken by the Bakairi people in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil.
Bakairí | |
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Bacairí | |
Kurâ | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Mato Grosso |
Native speakers | 950 (1999)[1] |
Cariban
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bkq |
Glottolog | baka1277 |
ELP | Bakairí[2] |
Phonology
The consonant and vowel inventories for Eastern Bakairí are shown below.[3]
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
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Stop | p b | t d | k ɡ | ||
Fricative | s z | ʃ (ʒ) | h | ||
Nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | ||
Approximant | w | ɾ
l |
j | ||
Vowels | Front | Central | Back |
---|---|---|---|
High | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Low | a | ||
Syntax
Baikarí word order is either subject-object-verb or object-verb-subject.[4]
References
- Bakairí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Bakairí.
- Meira Sérgio (2005). Reconstructing Pre-Bakairi segmental phonology. OCLC 1073250371.
- "Bakairí". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
- Meira, Sergio (Fall 2005). "Reconstructing Pre-Bakairi Segmental Phonology". Anthropological Linguistics. 47 (3): 3. JSTOR 25132338.
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