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Yatê
Carnijó, Fulni-ô
Yaa:thê
Pronunciation[ja:the]
Native toBrazil
RegionÁguas Belas, Pernambuco
Ethnicity7,000 Fulni-ô [pt] (2020)[1]
Native speakers
500 (2020)[1]
Dialects
  • Fulniô
  • Yatê
Language codes
ISO 639-3fun
Glottologfuln1247
ELPYaté
Yatê is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[2]
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Yatê or Iatê, the Fulni-ô language (Fulniô pronunciation: [ja:the][3]), is a language isolate of Brazil, and the only indigenous language remaining in the northeastern part of that country. The two dialects, Fulniô and Yatê, are very close. The Fulniô dialect is used primarily during a three-month religious retreat. Today, the language is spoken in Águas Belas, Pernambuco.[4] As of 2020, there were 500 fluent speakers of Yatê out of 7,000 Fulni-ô.[1]

The language is also called Carnijó, and alternate spellings are Fornió, Furniô, Yahthe, and Iatê.

Name

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The name "Yatê" means 'our speech' in the language, from ja 'our' and athe 'speech'.[3]

Classification

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Kaufman (1990, 1994, 2007) classified Fulniô as one of the Macro-Jê languages. However, Eduardo Ribeiro of the University of Chicago, who is working on large-scale classification of Brazilian languages, finds no evidence to support this, and treats it as an isolate. Jolkesky (2016) again has it as Macro-Jê, but Nikulin (2020) again excludes it.

Vocabulary

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Nikulin (2020)

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Some Yaathê words given by Nikulin (2020),[5]:69–70 cited from Lapenda (1965,[6] 2005 [1968][7]), Barbosa (1991),[8] Costa (1999),[9] F. Silva (2011a,[10] 2011b[11]), and Branner (1887).[12]

Portuguese gloss
(original)
English gloss
(translated)
Yaathê
cinzaashesfêlôwa
footfêhê
folhaleafta(-)cʰa
fígadoliverta(-)cô
dentetoothta(-)xi
cabelohairli
águawaterôːja
línguatonguekts(ʰ)ale
bocamouthta(-)tʰê
nariznosekʰletʰa
olhoeyetʰô
orelhaearkfakê
cabeçaheadtkʰa
fogofiretôwê
árvoretreecʰleka
sementeseedkêtʰôja
ouvirhearkfala-
dormirsleepkfafa-
terraearthfê(j)ʔa
piolholousecfôwa
pedrastonefô(ʔ)a
chuvarainflicja
mãohandkoho ~ kʰoja (?)
caminhoroadtdi
dargivekô-
estar sentadobe seatedkine-
estar deitadolying downkʰa-
irgoo-, no-
rabotailta(-)tô
carnemeatucʰi ~ utxi
nomenameketkʲa
unhanail (finger)kʰôtkʲa

Bibliography

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 Madeiro, Carlos (March 7, 2020). "Com escola, cinema e rituais, tribo mantém o Yaathe, única língua indígena viva no Nordeste". UOL (in Brazilian Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2025-03-16. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
  2. Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Yatê - Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú". www.etnolinguistica.org. Retrieved 2026-08-02.
  4. Ethnologue
  5. Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo. Tese de Doutorado em Linguística, Universidade de Brasília.
  6. Lapenda, G. C. Perfil da lingua yathê. Arquivos, Recife, v. 21/47, p. 54–72, 1965.
  7. Lapenda, G. C. Estrutura da língua Iatê, falada pelos índios Fulniôs em Pernambuco. 2ª ed. Recife: Editora Universitária UFPE, 2005 [1968]. 277 pp.
  8. Barbosa, E. A. Aspectos fonológicos da língua Yatê. 1991. 55 pp. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística) – Departamento de Lingüística, Línguas Clássicas e Vernácula, Instituto de Letras, Universidade de Brasília. 1991.
  9. Costa, J. F. da. Yaːthê, a última língua nativa no Nordeste do Brasil: aspectos morfo-fonológicos e morfo-sintáticos. 1999. 365 pp. Tese (Doutorado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. 1999.
  10. Silva, F. P. da. A sílaba em Yaathe. Dissertação (Mestrado em Linguística) – Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2011a. 133 pp.
  11. Silva, F. P. da. Descrição da estrutura silábica do Yaathe, uma língua indígena brasileira. In: Anais do VII Congresso Internacional da Abralin. Curitiba: s./ed., 2011b. p. 1378–1389.
  12. Branner, J. C. Os Carnijós de Aguas Bellas [Notas sobre uma língua indigena brasilieira]. Revista do Instituto Historico e Geographico Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro, v. 94, n. 148, p. 359–365, 1929.