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Kipeá
Kipeá
Kariri
Native to	Brazil
Region	between Bahia and Maranhão
Ethnicity	Kiriri people
Extinct	mid 20th century
Language family	Macro-Gê Karirian Kipeá; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	included in Karirí-Xocó [kzw]
Glottolog	kipe1235

Kipeá (Quipea), or Kariri, was a Karirian language of Brazil. It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single Kariri language. A short grammatical treatment is available.

Documentation

Kipeá is well documented by Luiz Mamiani, a Jesuit priest who wrote a grammar^[1] and catechism^[2] of the Kipeá language during the late 1600s.^[3]

Grammar

The morphology of the Kipeá language is predominantly isolating and analytic, unusual for a language native to the Americas.^[4]

Phonology

Phonology of the Kipeá language:^[5]

Consonant sounds
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Nasal		m	n	ɲ
Affricate	voiceless		t͡s	t͡ʃ
Affricate	voiced		d͡z	d͡ʒ
Fricative			s			h
Approximant				j

A voiced plosive [ɡ] can have an allophone of [ŋ].

**Vowel/Nasal sounds**
	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e ẽ		o õ
Low		a ã	ɑ̃

References

^ Mamiani, Luis Vincencio. 1699. Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam Kiriri. Lisboa: Miguel Deslandes.
^ Mamiani, Luis Vincencio. 1698. Catecismo da doutrina christãa na lingua brasilica da naçam Kiriri. Lisboa: Miguel Deslandes.
^ Ribeiro, Eduardo Rivail. On the inclusion of the Karirí family in the Macro-Jê stock: additional evidence. Paper presented at SSILA 2011 (Pittsburgh), January 7, 2011.
^ "Feature 20A: Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives". WALS. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
^ de Azevedo, Gilda Maria Corrêa. 1965. Língua kirirí: descrição do dialeto Kipeá. (MA thesis, Universidade de Brasília; 116pp.)