Kỳikatêjê language

Kỳikatêjê[3] or Kyikatêjê[4][1]:10 is a Timbira variety of the Jê language family of Brazil. It spoken by the Kỳikatêjê people in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria (Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará). Almost all speakers are over 40 years old; the younger generations have shifted to Portuguese.[3] Kỳikatêjê is closely related to Parkatêjê, spoken by another Timbira group in the same reservation.

Kỳikatêjê
Native toBrazil
RegionPará
EthnicityKỳikatêjê
Native speakers
9 (?)[1]:10 (2015)
Language codes
ISO 639-3gvp
Glottologtimb1254[2]

Phonology

Consonants

The consonantal inventory of Kỳikatêjê is as follows.[4]:62

labial/labiovelaralveolarpalatalvelarglottal
obstruents pttʃk
fricative h
nasals mn
oral sonorants wɾj

The stops /p k t/ are sometimes phonetically aspirated in coda: /pɨtit/ [pɨˈtitʰ] ‘one’. The approximant /j/ surfaces as [ʒ] preceding one of /ɨ̃ ĩ/, as in /mpɔ-jĩ/ [mpɔˈʒĩ] ‘meat’, /pa mũ jɨ̃/ [pamũˈʒɨ̃] ‘I sat down’. /n/ is optionally assimilated to [ŋ] before /k/, as in [ĩnkɾiˈɾɛ] ~ [ĩŋkɾiˈɾɛ] ‘small’. The voiced labial fricative and the glottal stop [ʔ] have been attested in one word each, [kuβeneˈɾɛ] ‘bird’ and [aʔə̃ˈɾɛ] ‘hen’.

Available complex onsets include /pɾ kɾ mp/ (and possibly others). The maximum syllable in Kỳikatêjê is /CCVC/.

Vowels

The vowel inventory of Kỳikatêjê is as follows.[4]:62

Oral Nasal
i ɨ u ĩ ɨ̃ ũ
e ə o ẽ ə̃ õ
ɛ ɜ ɔ
a

References
  1. Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Parkatejê". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Barboza, Tereza; Costa, Lucivaldo; Sompré, Concita (2016). "Situação sociolinguística dos Gavião Kyikatejê". Domínios de Lingu@gem. 10 (4): 1238–1256. doi:10.14393/DL27-v10n4a2016-3.
  4. Silva, Marília de Nazaré Ferreira (2014). "Descrição fonético-fonológica do Kyikatêjê". Letras de Hoje. 49 (1): 56. doi:10.15448/1984-7726.2014.1.14864.


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