Karajá language
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| Karajá | ||
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| Spoken in | Brazil | |
| Region | Araguaia River | |
| Total speakers | — | |
| Language family | Macro-Gê
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | kpj | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
For the singer, see Karaja (singer).
The Karajá language, also known as Ynã, is spoken by around 3000 people in some 30 villages in central Brazil. Dialects are North Karaja, South Karaja, Xambioá, and Javaé. There is male and female speech; one of the principal differences is that men drop the sound /k/, which is pronounced by women.
Karaja is a verb-final language, with simple noun and more complex verbal morphology that includes noun incorporation. Verbs inflect for direction as well as person, mood, object, and voice.
[edit] References
- Ribeiro, Eduardo Rivail. (2002) "Direction in Karajá". In Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani, ed., Vi encuentro internacional de lingüística en el noroeste.
- Ribeiro. (2000) "[ATR] vowel harmony and palatalization in Karajá". Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics. 10: Proceedings of wail 2000. pp. 80–89.
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