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Guató

Guató is a language isolate spoken in Brazil, by about 4 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.

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An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.

Guató (Guató: go-t͡ʃéuvɨ́ i-ótɨ́) is a language isolate spoken by two of the Guató people of Brazil. It has variously been claimed to be of Macro-Jê or isolate affiliation. Guató is a VSO language, has agglutination, and has ergative alignment.

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Words in Guató

MeaningWordRomanization
eyerE*
earvi*
nosetaga*
toothkwa*
tongueCaZa*
handra*
bloodogwa*
boneoku*
skinfE*
kneeroga*
breastofa*
liverpE*
waterg3*
fireta*
sunuvE*
starb3*
stoneaku*
mountainrapa*
treeada*
leafku*
nightafi*
dogve*
fishaye*
lousepagu*
oneCene*
twoduni*
Ioyo*
youohe*
wegoko*
drinkogog3*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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