Gavião of Jiparaná

Gavião of Jiparaná
Gavião of Jiparaná
Gavião of Rondônia
Ikó̱ló̱éhj
Native to	Brazil
Region	Rondônia
Ethnicity	520 Gavião (2004), 787 Zoró (2020)
Native speakers	340 (2006)
Language family	Tupian Monde Gavião of Jiparaná; ;
Dialects	Zoró;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gvo
Glottolog	gavi1246 Gavião do Jiparaná; zoro1244 Zoró
ELP	Gavião
	Zoró
Linguasphere	88-EAB-ab
	88-EAB-ac
	88-EAB-ag

Gaviao of Jiparana (Gavião do Jiparaná), also known as "Digüt" (a chief's name^[2]), Ikolen and Gavião do Rondônia, or in the language itself, Ikó̱ló̱éhj,^[3] is the language of the Gavião of Rondônia, Brazil. It is a Tupian language of the Monde branch. It is partially intelligible with Suruí. The Zoró dialect spoken by the Zoró people is sometimes considered a separate language.

Phonology

Consonants

Gavião consonants^[3]
		Labial	Alveolar	Alveolopalatal	Velar	Glottal
Occlusive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
Occlusive	voiced	b	d		g
Affricate	voiceless		ts	tʃ
Affricate	voiced		dz
Fricative	voiceless	β
Fricative	voiced
Lateral	voiced		l
Flap			r
Approximant				j

Vowels

Gavião vowels^[3]
		Front		Central		Back
		plain	nasal	plain	nasal	plain	nasal
High	short	i	ĩ	ɨ	ɨ̃
High	long	iː	ĩː	ɨː	ɨ̃ː
Mid	short	e	ẽ			o	õ
Mid	long	eː	ẽː			oː	õː
Low	short			a	ã
Low	long			aː	ãː

References

1 2 Gavião of Jiparaná at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Tait, Mary (1994), Atlas of the world's languages, London; New York: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5
1 2 3 Sona-Gavião, Iram Káv (2019). Nomes, verbos, adjetivos, posposições e predicações na língua dos ikólóéhj (Gavião, Fam. Mondé, Tronco Tupí) (PDF) (masters thesis). Universidade de Brasília.

External links

ELAR archive of Gavião and Suruí Languages in whistled and instrumental speech by Julien Meyer
ELAR archive of Language Documentation of traditional culture among the Gavião and Suruí of Rondônia by Dennis Moore

[e18-1] 1 2 Gavião of Jiparaná at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Tait, Mary (1994), Atlas of the world's languages, London; New York: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5

[:0-3] 1 2 3 Sona-Gavião, Iram Káv (2019). Nomes, verbos, adjetivos, posposições e predicações na língua dos ikólóéhj (Gavião, Fam. Mondé, Tronco Tupí) (PDF) (masters thesis). Universidade de Brasília.

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