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| Krĩkatí | |
|---|---|
| Krinkati | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Maranhão |
| Ethnicity | Krĩkatí |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xri |
| Glottolog | krin1238 |
Krĩkatí[1]: 11 (also Krinkati[2]: 6 or Krikati[3]) is a Timbira dialect of the Northern Jê language group (Jê, Macro-Jê) spoken by the Krĩkatí in Terra Indígena Krikati in Maranhão, Brazil. It is very closely related to Pykobjê, and Nimuendajú described Krĩkatí as "completely coincid[ing] with that of the Pukóbye”.[4]
There is a Krĩkatí-Portuguese dictionary written by a New Tribes Mission missionary.[3]
Phonology
[edit]Krĩkatí is closely related to Pykobjê, but differs from it in lacking the velar nasal phoneme /ŋ/ (as in cahã ‘snake’, hõr ‘to sleep’, corresponding to Pykobjê cagã, gõr)[2]: 22, 158 as well as the fricative allophone of /j/ (which is realized as [s ~ ʃ] in the coda position in Pykobjê, but as [j] in Krĩkatí).[2]: 21
References
[edit]- ↑ Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
- 1 2 3 Sá Amado, Rosane de (2004). Aspectos morfofonológicos do Gavião-Pykobjê (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo.
- 1 2 Pries, Stanley T. (2008). Dicionário Gavião-Krikati.
- ↑ Nimuendajú, Curt (1946). The Eastern Timbira. University of Californa Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. Vol. 41. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
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