Kasharari language

Kaxararí
Kaxarari
Native toBrazil
Regionnorthwest Rondônia
Native speakers
(270 cited 2001)[1]
Panoan
  • Mainline Panoan
    • Kaxararí
Language codes
ISO 639-3ktx
Glottologkaxa1239
ELPKaxararí

Kaxararí is a Panoan language of Brazil. It is spoken around the northwest border of the State of Rondônia.[2] The Kaxarari language is the most divergent of the Mainline Panoan branch.

Phonology

Consonants

Kaxararí has 16 consonant phonemes (Sousa 2004).

Consonant phonemes[3]
Bilabial Alveolar Alveolo

-palatal

Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ
Plosive p t k
Tap
Affricate ts
Fricative β s ʃ ʂ h
Approximant Median w j
Lateral l

Vocabulary

Kaxarari Vocabulary (Sousa 2004):[3]

References

  1. ^ Kaxararí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Did you know Kaxararí is threatened?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  3. ^ a b Sousa, Gladys Cavalcante Sousa (2004). Aspectos da fonologia da língua Kaxarari (Dissertation, Masters in Linguistics). Campinas: Unicamp.