Krahô dialect

Canela-Krahô dialect of Brazil

Krahô (Krahô: Mehĩ jarkwa [mẽˈhĩ jaɾˈkʰwa]^[2]: 74) is a dialect of the Canela-Krahô language, a Timbira variety of the Northern Jê language group (Jê, Macro-Jê) spoken in Tocantins, Brazil by the Krahô people.

Phonology

Vowels

• A short /a/ can have an allophone of a mid-central sound [ə].

Consonants

• /ʋ/ is realized as [w] when occurring in between vowels.^[3]

References

1. Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
2. Leite, Marília Fernanda Pereira (2015). O Ensino de L2 na escola indígena 19 de abril: uma análise sobre as políticas e linguísticas na perspectiva dos Krahô da aldeia Manoel Alves (PDF) (MA thesis). Araguaína: Universidade Federal do Tocantins.
3. Albuquerque, Francisco Edviges; Krahô, Renato Yahé (2016). Gramática Pedagógica Krahô. Pontes Editores.