Krĩkatí dialect

Krĩkatí
Krĩkatí
Native to	Brazil
Region	Maranhão
Ethnicity	Krĩkatí
Language family	Macro-Jê Jê Cerrado Jê of Goyaz Northern Jê Timbira Pykobjê language–Krĩkatí Krĩkatí; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xri
Glottolog	krin1238

Krĩkatí^[1]^: 11 (also Krinkati^[2]^: 6 or Krikati^[3]) is a Timbira variety of the Northern Jê language group (Jê, Macro-Jê) spoken by the Krĩkatí in Terra Indígena Krikati in Maranhão, Brazil.

There is a Krĩkatí-Portuguese dictionary by a New Tribes Mission missionary.^[3]

Phonology

Krĩkatí is closely related to Pykobjê, but differs from it in lacking the velar nasal phoneme /ŋ/ (as in cahã ‘snake’, hõr ‘to sleep’, corresponding to Pykobjê cagã, gõr)^[2]^{: 22, 158} as well as the fricative allophone of /j/ (which is realized as [s ~ ʃ] in the coda position in Pykobjê, but as [j] in Krĩkatí).^[2]^: 21

References

^ Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sá Amado, Rosane de (2004). Aspectos morfofonológicos do Gavião-Pykobjê (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo.
^ ^a ^b Pries, Stanley T. (2008). Dicionário Gavião-Krikati.

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[Nikulin-Macro-Je-1] Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.

[Sá_Amado-2004-2] Sá Amado, Rosane de (2004). Aspectos morfofonológicos do Gavião-Pykobjê (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo.

[Pries-3] Pries, Stanley T. (2008). Dicionário Gavião-Krikati.

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