Karajá
Karajá is a Nuclear-Macro-Je language spoken in Brazil. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Karajá, also known as Iny rybè, is a Macro-Jê language spoken by the Karajá people in some thirty villages in central Brazil.
There are distinct male and female forms of speech; one of the principal differences is that men drop the sound /k/, which is pronounced by women.
Karaja is a verb-final language, with simple noun and more complex verbal morphology that includes noun incorporation. Verbs inflect for direction as well as person, mood, object, and voice.
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Words in Karajá
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | hawyy | |
| name | ni* | |
| eye | ruE* | |
| ear | dohodi* | |
| nose | dea8e* | |
| tooth | ju* | |
| tongue | dor3do* | |
| hand | dEbo* | |
| blood | l3bu* | |
| bone | di* | |
| skin | d3k3* | |
| knee | dikohu* | |
| breast | hu3* | |
| liver | ba* | |
| water | be | |
| fire | hEod3* | |
| sun | Cun* | |
| star | daida* | |
| stone | bada* | |
| mountain | hawalo* | |
| tree | oworu* | |
| leaf | d3* | |
| night | ru* | |
| dog | ijoro8a* | |
| fish | ija8o* | |
| louse | d3buru* | |
| one | sohoji | |
| two | idaCi* | |
| I | jiari* | |
| you | kai* |
* 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 · kara1500 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kpj