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| Pekodian | |
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| Geographic distribution | Mato Grosso and Pará, Brazil |
| Linguistic classification | Cariban
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| Glottolog | peko1235 |
The Pekodian languages are a subgroup of the Cariban language family. The languages are spoken in Mato Grosso and Pará states of Brazil and make up the southernmost branch of Cariban.[1]
Meira and Chousou-Polydouri (2015) consider Pekodian to have descended from Cariban migrations that came from the north, as Cariban linguistic diversity is concentrated in northern South America.[2]
The term Pekodian was coined in 2005 by Sérgio Meira and Bruna Franchetto on the basis of a cognate word for ‘woman’ found in these languages, respectively Bakairi pekodo and Ikpeng petkom, but not found in any of the other Cariban languages compared against them.[3]
Languages
[edit]The Pekodian languages are:[4][5][6]
- Bakairi
- Ikpeng
- Pará Arára
- Yarumá (Suyá)
- Kuikúro (Kuikuro–Kalapalo, Matipuhy)
Internal classification
[edit]Carvalho classifies the Pekodian languages as follows.[1]
The term Kampot is coined by Carvalho (2020) from the lexical innovation *kampot ‘fire’ defining the dialect cluster.
Sound changes
[edit]A number of sound changes are shared between Bakairí and Ikpeng:[3]
- In intervocalic position, Proto-Cariban *p becomes w, *t becomes d (further developing to r in Ikpeng), and *k becomes g.
- Proto-Cariban *r becomes l in certain (as-yet undetermined) shared environments.
- Proto-Cariban *w becomes p word-initially (though there are some exceptions in Ikpeng).
- Proto-Cariban *t palatalizes to tʃ before e and i. (Bakairí further develops tʃ to ʃ, ʒ, s, or z.)
- Possibly, the Proto-Cariban sequence *nu-ru reduced to *n-ru, yielding Bakairí nu and Ikpeng ŋ-ru, although these results can also be explained in other ways.
Loanwords
[edit]Pekodian languages have various loanwords from non-Cariban languages, including Juruna and Arawakan languages.[1]
Pekodian may have also influenced Bororoan and other non-Cariban language families.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 O. de Carvalho, Fernando (2021-01-07). "Tocantins Apiaká, Parirí and Yarumá as Members of the Pekodian Branch (Cariban)". Revista Brasileira de Línguas Indígenas. 3 (1): 85. doi:10.18468/rbli.2020v3n1.p85-93. ISSN 2595-685X.
- ↑ Meira S, Birchall J, Chousou-Polydouri S. 2015. A character-based internal classification of the Cariban family. Talk presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguisticae Europaea, Leiden, Netherlands, Sept. 4.
- 1 2 Meira, Sérgio; Franchetto, Bruna (April 2005). "The Southern Cariban Languages and the Cariban Family". International Journal of American Linguistics. 71 (2): 127–192. doi:10.1086/491633. ISSN 0020-7071.
- ↑ Meira, Sérgio. 2006. A família lingüística Caribe (Karíb). Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas v.3, n.1/2, p.157-174. Brasília: FUNAI. (PDF)
- ↑ Gildea, Spike. 2012. "Linguistic studies in the Cariban family", in Campbell & Grondona, eds, The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
- ↑ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.