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(Redirected from Kraho language) Canela-Krahô dialect of Brazil
Krahô
Mehĩ jarkwa
Pronunciation
Native toBrazil
RegionTocantins
EthnicityKrahô
Native speakers2000 (2020)
Language familyMacro-Jê
Language codes
ISO 639-3xra
Glottologkrah1246
ELPKrahô
Krahô is a dialect of the Canela-Krahô language

Krahô (Krahô: Mehĩ jarkwa ) is a dialect of the Canela-Krahô language, a Timbira variety of the Northern Jê language group (, Macro-Jê) spoken in Tocantins, Brazil by the Krahô people.

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 .

Consonants

Labial Dental/
Alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop voiceless p k ʔ
aspirated
Fricative ɦ
Nasal m ŋ
Flap ɾ
Approximant ʋ ~ w j
  • /ʋ/ is realized as when occurring in between vowels.

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.
Languages of Brazil
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languages
Arawakan
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Macro-Jê languages
Cerrado
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Northern
Timbira
Central (Akuwẽ)
Jê of Paraná
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Unclassified
Trans–São Francisco
Krenák
Maxakalían
Kamakã
Western
Mato Grosso
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Borôro ?
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