| Xakriabá | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Minas Gerais |
| Ethnicity | Xakriabá people |
| Extinct | 1864 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xkr |
| Glottolog | xakr1238 |
| ELP | Xakriabá |
 Xakriabá is classified as Extinct by theUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Xakriabá (also calledChakriaba,Chikriaba,Shacriaba orShicriabá)[1] is an extinct or dormantAkuwẽ (Central Jê) language (Jê,Macro-Jê) formerly spoken inMinas Gerais,Brazil by theXakriabá people, who today speakPortuguese.[2] The language is known through two short wordlists collected byAugustin Saint-Hilaire andWilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege.[3]: 14
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ | u ũ |
| Mid | e ẽ | ə | o õ |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a ã |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 theSão Francisco River nearSão Romão,Minas Gerais[5] (Saint-Hilaire 2000: 340-341).[6] The Xakriabá were then forced to migrate after being defeated byMatias Cardoso de Almeida [pt] and otherPaulistas from 1690 onwards. In 1819, Saint-Hilaire (1975: 145)[7] noted that the Xakriabá ofTriângulo Mineiro region spoke aXerente dialect.[5]
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