Krenak language
The Krenak language, or Botocudo, is the sole surviving language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Gê languages. It was once spoken by the Botocudo people in Minas Gerais, but is known primarily by older women today.
| Krenak | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Minas Gerais |
| Ethnicity | 150 Botocudo (2006)[1] |
Native speakers | 10 (2006)[1] |
Macro-Gê
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kqq |
| Glottolog | kren1239[2] |
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ | u ũ |
| Close-mid | o | ||
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | |
| Open | a ã |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | d | g | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | |||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| Fricative | ʒ | h | |||||
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ɲ̥ | ŋ̥ | ||
| voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
References
- Krenak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Krenak". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
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