Dzubukua
Dzubukuá | |
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Kiriri | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | between Bahia and Maranhão |
Ethnicity | Kiriri people |
Extinct | mid 20th century |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
included in kzw Individual code: tgv – Tingui-Botó[1] |
Glottolog |
dzub1241 [2] |
Dzubukuá (Dzubucua), or Kiriri, is an extinct Karirian language of Brazil. It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single Kariri language. A short grammatical description is available.
Phonology
Phonology of the Dzubukua language:[3]
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
Flap | ɾ | |||||
Fricative | h | |||||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | ||||
voiced | d͡z | |||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Approximant | w | j |
Vowels
Vowel sounds are presented as [i, ɨ, u, e, o, a] and [œ] which is written out as a double vowel oe. Nasal vowels are pronounced as [ɐ̃, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ] along with nasalized double vowels oê and aê, not pronounced as diphthongs, but as nasalized monophthongs [œ̃, æ̃].[3]
References
- ↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dzubukua". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Queiroz, 2008.
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