Krenak language
Endangered Macro-Gê language of the Botocudo people of Brazil
Krenak | |
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Native to | Brazil |
Region | Minas Gerais |
Ethnicity | 150 Botocudo (2006)[1] |
Native speakers | 10 (2006)[1] |
Language family | Macro-Gê
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kqq |
Glottolog | kren1239 |
ELP | Krenak |
The Krenak language, or Botocudo, is the sole surviving language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Gê languages. It was once spoken by the Botocudo people in Minas Gerais, but is known primarily by older women today.
Phonology
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i ĩ | ɨ | u ũ |
Mid | ə | ||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɜ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ |
Open | a |
Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | g | |||
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿd͡ʒ | ᵑɡ | |||
Fricative | ʒ | h | |||||
Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ɲ̊ | ŋ̊ | ||
voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
Flap | ɾ | ||||||
Approximant | j | w |
/h/ can also have an allophone of a velar [x].[2]
References
- ^ a b Krenak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Pessoa, Katia N. (2012). Análise fonética e fonológica da língua Krenak e abordagem preliminar de contos Botocudo. Campinas.
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