Ofayé language
The Ofayé or Opaye language, also Ofaié-Xavante, Opaié-Shavante, forms its own branch of the Macro-Jê languages. It is spoken by only a couple of the small Ofayé people, though language revitalization efforts are underway.
| Ofayé | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Mato Grosso do Sul |
| Ethnicity | 60 Ofayé people (2006)[1] |
Native speakers | 2 (2005)[1] |
Macro-Jê
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | opy |
| Glottolog | ofay1240[2] |
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It was spoken on the Ivinhema River, Pardo River, and Nhandú River in Mato Grosso. Guachi, spoken on the Vacaria River in Mato Grosso, is a dialect.[3]
Language contact
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Macro-Mataguayo-Guaykuru languages due to contact.[4]
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ||
| Open | a ã |
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | d | g | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | (f) | ʃ | h | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||
Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.[3]
gloss Opaie one enex-há two yakwári tongue chü-õrá foot chü-gareyé fire mitáu tree komekatá jaguar woki house shüa white õká
References
- Ofayé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ofayé". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
- Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery (2016). Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas (Ph.D. dissertation) (2 ed.). Brasília: University of Brasília.
- "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
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