Guató
Guató is a language isolate spoken in Brazil, by about 4 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.
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
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| eye | rE* | |
| ear | vi* | |
| nose | taga* | |
| tooth | kwa* | |
| tongue | CaZa* | |
| hand | ra* | |
| blood | ogwa* | |
| bone | oku* | |
| skin | fE* | |
| knee | roga* | |
| breast | ofa* | |
| liver | pE* | |
| water | g3* | |
| fire | ta* | |
| sun | uvE* | |
| star | b3* | |
| stone | aku* | |
| mountain | rapa* | |
| tree | ada* | |
| leaf | ku* | |
| night | afi* | |
| dog | ve* | |
| fish | aye* | |
| louse | pagu* | |
| one | Cene* | |
| two | duni* | |
| I | oyo* | |
| you | ohe* | |
| we | goko* | |
| drink | ogog3* |
* 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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Glottolog · guat1253 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · gta