| Kỳikatêjê | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Pará |
| Ethnicity | Kỳikatêjê |
Native speakers | 9? (2015)[1]: 10 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Kỳikatêjê[2] orKyikatêjê[3][1]: 10 is a dialect ofPará Gavião, aJê language ofBrazil. It spoken by theKỳikatêjê people inTerra Indígena Mãe Maria (Bom Jesus do Tocantins,Pará). Almost all speakers are over 40 years old; the younger generations have shifted toPortuguese.[2] Kỳikatêjê is closely related to theParkatêjê dialect, spoken by another Timbira group in the same reservation.
The consonantal inventory of Kỳikatêjê is as follows.[3]: 62
| labial | alveolar | palatal | velar | glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plosive | p | t | tʃ | k | |
| fricative | h | ||||
| nasals | m | n | |||
| oral sonorants | w | ɾ | j |
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’. Thevoiced labial fricative and theglottal 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/.
The vowel inventory of Kỳikatêjê is as follows.[3]: 62
| Oral | Nasal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | Front | Central | Back | |
| Close | i | ɨ | u | ĩ | ɨ̃ | ũ |
| Close-mid | e | ə | o | ẽ | ə̃ | õ |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɜ | ɔ | |||
| Open | a | |||||
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