Bakairi language

Bakairí (Bacairí) is a Cariban language, spoken by the Bakairi people in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil.

Bakairí
Bacairí
Kurâ
Native toBrazil
RegionMato Grosso
Native speakers
950 (1999)[1]
Cariban
  • Pekodian
    • Bakairí
Language codes
ISO 639-3bkq
Glottologbaka1277
ELPBakairí[2]

Phonology

The consonant and vowel inventories for Eastern Bakairí are shown below.[3]

ConsonantsBilabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Stopp bt dk ɡ
Fricatives zʃ (ʒ) h
Nasalmn(ɲ)
Approximantw ɾ

l

j
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Highiɨu
Mideəo
Lowa

Syntax

Baikarí word order is either subject-object-verb or object-verb-subject.[4]

References

  1. Bakairí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Bakairí.
  3. Meira Sérgio (2005). Reconstructing Pre-Bakairi segmental phonology. OCLC 1073250371.
  4. "Bakairí". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-02-07.
  • Meira, Sergio (Fall 2005). "Reconstructing Pre-Bakairi Segmental Phonology". Anthropological Linguistics. 47 (3): 3. JSTOR 25132338.


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