Xakriabá | |
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Native to | Brazil |
Region | Minas Gerais |
Ethnicity | formerly Xakriabá people |
Extinct | 1864 |
Macro-Jê
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
xkr |
Glottolog |
xakr1238 |
ELP | Xakriabá |
Xakriabá (also written Chakriaba, Chikriaba, Shacriaba) is an extinct or dormant Akuwẽ (Central Jê) language ( Jê, Macro-Jê) formerly spoken in Minas Gerais, Brazil by the Xakriabá people, who today speak Portuguese. [1] The language is known through two short wordlists collected by Augustin Saint-Hilaire and Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege. [2]: 14
The last confirmed native speaker of the language died in 1864.[ citation needed]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i ĩ | ɨ | u ũ |
Mid | e ẽ | ə | o õ |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | a ã |
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
voiced | b | d | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | s | (ʃ) | h | ||
voiced | z | (ʒ) | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||
Tap | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | w | (j) |
Before 1712, Xakriabá was originally spoken along the São Francisco River near São Romão, Minas Gerais [4] ( Saint-Hilaire 2000: 340-341). [5] The Xakriabá were then forced to migrate after being defeated by Matias Cardoso de Almeida and other Paulistas from 1690 onwards. In 1819, Saint-Hilaire (1975: 145) [6] noted that the Xakriabá of Triângulo Mineiro region spoke a Xerente dialect. [4]