Xerénte language

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Xerénte
Native to
Xerente people
Native speakers
1,810 (2000)[1]
Official status
Official language in
 Brazil (Tocantínia)
Language codes
ISO 639-3xer
Glottologxere1240
ELPXerente

The Xerénte or Akwẽ-Xerénte language is an

Rio Tocantins
.

Phonology

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ĩ ɨ u ũ
Close-mid e ẽ o õ
Mid ə ə̃
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a
  • Vowels /i, ɨ, u, a/ when occurring in unstressed syllables can be heard as [ɪ, ɨ̞, ʊ, ɐ].
Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop
 voiceless p t k
voiced b d
Fricative
 voiceless s h
voiced z
Nasal m n
Approximant
 j w
Flap
 ɾ
  • A [ɡ] sound is heard as an allophone of /k/ when preceding another consonant.
  • /d/ can be heard as dental [d̪] when preceding /i/.
  • /s/ can be heard as a post-alveolar or retroflex sibilant sound [ʃ~ʂ] when preceding /i/.
  • /h/ when preceding /i/ can be heard as a voiced velar or glottal fricative sound [ɣ~ɦ].
  • /h/ when preceding /k/ can be heard as a velar fricative sound [x].
  • /n/ when preceding the following vowels /i, õ, ɔ/ can be heard as a palatal nasal [ɲ].
  • /ɾ/ may also be heard as a retroflex flap [ɽ].[2]

Grammar

Personal pronouns[3]

Person Nominative Emphatic Absolutive Tense-Aspect-Mood-Person

markers

1S wa wahã ĩ- wa-
1P wanõrĩ (nĩ) - wa-
2S ka, toka kahã ai- bî-, te-
2P kanõrĩ (kwa), tokanõrĩ -
3S ta tahã Ø-, ã-, ti-, t- Ø-, mã-, te-
3P tanõrĩ tahãnõrĩ

The nominative and emphatic forms are free morphemes with the function of subject of transitive or intransitive sentences. The absolutive pronoun prefixes mark possessors, objects of postpositions, direct objects, subjects of nominal predicates and subjects of intransitive verbs with post-verbal operators.

Notes

  1. ^ Xerénte at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ de Souza, Shelton Lima (2008). Descrição fonético-fonológica da língua Akwen-Xerente. Universidade de Brasília, Brasília.
  3. ISSN 2177-7160
    .
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