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
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kqq |
| Glottolog | kren1239 |
| ELP | Krenak[2] |
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ | u ũ |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɜ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ |
| Open | a |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | d | g | ||||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | |||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| prenasal | ⁿd͡ʒ | ||||||
| Fricative | ʒ | h | |||||
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ɲ̊ | ŋ̊ | ||
| voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
/h/ can also have an allophone of a velar [x].[3]
References
- Krenak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Krenak.
- Pessoa, Katia N. (2012). Análise fonética e fonológica da língua Krenak e abordagem preliminar de contos Botocudo. Campinas.
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