Bakairi language

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

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

Phonology

The consonant and vowel inventories for Eastern Bakairí are shown below.[2]

Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b d ɡ
Fricative voiceless s ʃ h
voiced z (ʒ)
Nasal m n (ɲ)
Liquid rhotic ɾ
lateral l
Glide w j
Vowels
Front Central Back
High i ɨ u
Mid e ə o
Low a

Syntax

Baikarí word order is either subject–object–verb or object–verb–subject.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Bakairí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Meira 2005.
  3. ^ "Bakairí". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-02-07.

References

  • Faria, Geraldo Pinto De, Junior (2022). A Grammar of the Bakairi Language (PhD thesis). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. doi:10.48273/lot0609. ISBN 978-94-6093-394-3.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Meira, Sérgio (2005). "Reconstructing Pre-Bakairi Segmental Phonology". Anthropological Linguistics. 47 (3): 261–291. JSTOR 25132338.
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