Guató language

Guató is a possible language isolate spoken by 1% of the Guató people of Brazil.

Guató
Native toBrazil, Bolivia
RegionMato Grosso do Sul state: Paraguay River banks and up São Lourenço River, along Bolivian border;[1] also Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia): Uberaba Lake[2]
Ethnicity370 Guató people (2008)[1]
Native speakers
5 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3gta
Glottologguat1253[3]

Classification

Kaufman (1990) provisionally classified Guató as a branch of the Macro-Jê languages, but no evidence for this was found by Eduardo Ribeiro. Martins (2011) also suggests a relationship with Macro-Jê.[4]

Language contact

Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Bororo, Tupi, and Karib language families due to contact.[5]

Distribution

In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, Guató is spoken on the banks of the Paraguay River and up the São Lourenço River, along the Bolivian border.[6] It is also spoken at Uberaba Lake[2] in Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia).

Phonology

The Guató vowel system, like that of Macro-Jê languages, collapses a three-way distinction of height in oral vowels to two in nasal vowels.[7]

Oral Nasal
Front Central Back Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u ĩ ɨ̃ ũ
Mid e o ẽ ã
Open ɛ a ɔ
Labial Denti-
alveolar		 Post-
alveolar		 Velar Labio-
velar		 Glottal
Nasal m n
Plosive voiced b d dʒ ɡ ɡʷ
voiceless p t tʃ k kʷ
Fricative f h
Sonorant w ɾ j

Vocabulary

Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Guató.[2]

glossGuató
onechenéhe
twodúni
threechumó
toothmakuá
tonguemundokuír
handmara
womanmuazya
watermágũ
firematá
moonmúpina
maizemadzyéro
jaguarmépago
housemovír

For more extensive vocabulary lists of Guató by Palácio (1984)[8][9] and Postigo (2009),[10] see the corresponding Portuguese article.

References
  1. Guató at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
  2. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Guató". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Martins, Andérbio Márcio Silva. 2011. Uma avaliação da hipótese de relações genéticas entre o Guató e o tronco Macro-Jê. Doutorado em Linguística. Universidade de Brasília.
  5. Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2 ed.). Brasília: University of Brasília.
  6. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Brazil languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  7. A. P. Palacios, 1984; A. V. Postigo, 2009
  8. Palácio, Adair Pimentel. 1984. Guató: a língua dos índios canoeiros do rio Paraguai. Campinas: Univ. Dissertação doutoral, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
  9. Martins, Andérbio Márcio Silva. 2011. Uma avaliação da hipótese de relações genéticas entre o Guató e o tronco Macro-Jê. Dissertação doutoral, Universidade de Brasília.
  10. Postigo, Adriana Viana. 2009. Fonologia da língua Guató. Dissertação de mestrado. Três Lagoas: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul.
  • Alain Fabre, 2005, Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: GUATÓ.
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