Kipeá | |
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Kariri | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | between Bahia and Maranhão |
Ethnicity | Kiriri people |
Extinct | mid 20th century |
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.
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]
The morphology of the Kipeá language is predominantly isolating and analytic, unusual for a language native to the Americas. [4]
Phonology of the Kipeá language: [5]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | |||
voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | ||||
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Approximant | j |
A voiced plosive [ɡ] can have an allophone of [ŋ].
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | ɨ | u |
Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
Low | a ã | ɑ̃ |