Gavião of Jiparaná
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| Gavião of Jiparaná | |
|---|---|
| Gavião of Rondônia | |
| Ikó̱ló̱éhj | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Rondônia |
| Ethnicity | 520 Gavião (2004),[1] 787 Zoró (2020) |
Native speakers | 340 (2006)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gvo |
| Glottolog | gavi1246 Gavião do Jiparanázoro1244 Zoró |
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| Zoró | |
Gaviao of Jiparana (Gavião do Jiparaná), also known as "Digüt" (a chief's name[2]), Ikolen and Gavião do Rondônia, or in the language itself, Ikó̱ló̱éhj,[3] is the language of the Gavião of Rondônia, Brazil. It is a Tupian language of the Monde branch. It is partially intelligible with Suruí. The Zoró dialect spoken by the Zoró people is sometimes considered a separate language.
Phonology
[edit | edit source]Consonants
[edit | edit source]| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolopalatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occlusive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | g | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tʃ | |||
| voiced | dz | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | β | ||||
| voiced | ||||||
| Lateral | voiced | l | ||||
| Flap | r | |||||
| Approximant | j | |||||
Vowels
[edit | edit source]| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | nasal | plain | nasal | plain | nasal | ||
| High | short | i | ĩ | ɨ | ɨ̃ | ||
| long | iː | ĩː | ɨː | ɨ̃ː | |||
| Mid | short | e | ẽ | o | õ | ||
| long | eː | ẽː | oː | õː | |||
| Low | short | a | ã | ||||
| long | aː | ãː | |||||
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Gavião of Jiparaná at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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- ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]- ELAR archive of Gavião and Suruí Languages in whistled and instrumental speech by Julien Meyer
- ELAR archive of Language Documentation of traditional culture among the Gavião and Suruí of Rondônia by Dennis Moore
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