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Goyaz Jê
Goyaz Jê
Geographic; distribution	Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Pará, Maranhão, formerly Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo
Linguistic classification	Macro-Jê Jê Cerrado Goyaz Jê; ; ;
Subdivisions	Northern Jê; Panará, Southern Kayapó;
Language codes
Glottolog	jese1235

The Goyaz Jê languages (also Northern Jê–Panará^[1]^: 95) are a branch of the Jê languages constituted by the Northern Jê languages and Panará (and its predecessor Southern Kayapó).^[2]^: 14–5 Together with the Akuwẽ (Central Jê) languages, they form the Cerrado branch of the Jê family.

Phonology

Onsets

The consonantal inventory of Proto-Goyaz Jê is almost identical to that of Proto-Northern Jê, differing from it in that it had no contrast between *ĵ and *j and lacked the phoneme */w/. Proto-Goyaz Jê did have the sounds *ĵ and *j, but they occurred in a complementary distribution at that stage (in stressed and unstressed syllables, respectively). In Proto-Northern Jê, words with */w/ and */j/ (in stressed syllables) have been introduced from unknown sources (possibly via borrowings), as in *wet ‘lizard’, *wewe ‘butterfly’, or *jət ‘sweet potato’.

In Proto-Goyaz Jê, underlying nasals acquired an oral phrase preceding an oral nucleus (this is preserved in all contemporary languages with the exception of Mẽbêngôkre, which no longer has the postoralized allophones of the underlying nasal stops).

	labial	labial + rhotic	dentialveolar	palatal	velar	velar + rhotic
voiceless stops	/p/ [p]	/pɾ/ [pɾ]	/t/ [t]	/c/ [c]	/k/ [k]	/kɾ/ [kɾ]
voiced stops	/b/ [b]		(/d/ [d])		/g/ (nasal [ŋ], oral *[g])
nasal stops	/m/ (nasal [m], oral *[mb])	/mɾ/ (nasal [mɾ], oral *[mbɾ])	/n/ (nasal [n], oral *[nd])	/ɲ/ (nasal —, oral [ɲɟ])	/ŋ/ (nasal [ŋ], oral *[ŋg])	/ŋɾ/ (nasal [ŋɾ], oral *[ŋgɾ])
sonorants			/ɾ/ [ɾ]	/j/ (nasal [ɲ], oral & stressed [ɟ], oral & unstressed [j])

The following table shows the usual reflexes of the Proto-Goyaz Jê onsets in Proto-Northern Jê and in Panará.

Proto-Goyaz Jê	Proto-Northern Jê	Panará
p /p/	p /p/	p /p/
mb /m/	mb /mb/	np /m/
m /m/	m /m/	m /m/
pr /pɾ/	pr /pɾ/	pj /pj/, pr /pɾ/
mbr /mɾ/	mbr /mɾ/	npj /mj/, npr /mɾ/
mr /mɾ/	mr /mɾ/	?
b /b/	b /b/	p /p/
t /t/	t /t/	t /t/
nd /n/	nd /n/	nt /n/
n /n/	n /n/	n /n/
d /d/	d /d/	h /∅/
r /ɾ/	r /ɾ/	j /j/, r /ɾ/
c /c/	c /c/	s /s/
nĵ /ɲ/	nĵ /ɲ/	ns /ɲ/
ñ /j/	ñ /ɟ/	j /j/
ĵ /j/	ĵ /ɟ/	s /s/
j /j/	j /ɟ/	j /j/
k /k/	k /k/	k /k/ (kaC- > aC-, kaNC- > nãnC-, *kuC- > [i]CC-)
ŋg /ŋ/	*ŋg /ŋ/	nk /ŋ/
ŋ /ŋ/	*ŋ /ŋ/	nk /ŋ/
kr /kɾ/	*kr /kɾ/	kj /kj/, kr /kɾ/
ŋgr /ŋɾ/	*ŋgr /ŋɾ/	ŋkj /ŋj/
ŋr /ŋɾ/	*ŋr /ŋɾ/	ŋkj /ŋj/
g /g/	*g /g/	k /k/

Innovations

There are phonological and lexical innovations which identify Goyaz Jê as a valid group.

Fortition of */w j/

In the Goyaz Jê languages, Proto-Cerrado *w is mostly reflected as a stop (Panará/Timbira/Apinajé/Kĩsêdjê p, Mẽbêngôkre b; only Tapayúna has w). This has been attributed to the sound change Proto-Cerrado *w > Proto-Goyaz Jê *b.^[3]^: 159 Examples:^[2]^{: 451–2, 470}