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Karajá

Karajá is a Nuclear-Macro-Je language spoken in Brazil. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Karajá · 11.2°S 50.3°W

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.

From Wikipedia · Karajá language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Karajá

MeaningWordRomanization
womanhawyy
nameni*
eyeruE*
eardohodi*
nosedea8e*
toothju*
tonguedor3do*
handdEbo*
bloodl3bu*
bonedi*
skind3k3*
kneedikohu*
breasthu3*
liverba*
waterbe
firehEod3*
sunCun*
stardaida*
stonebada*
mountainhawalo*
treeoworu*
leafd3*
nightru*
dogijoro8a*
fishija8o*
loused3buru*
onesohoji
twoidaCi*
Ijiari*
youkai*

* 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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