Arikapú_language

Arikapú language

Arikapú language

Yabutian language of Brazil

Arikapú or Maxubí is an endangered Yabutian language.

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Loukotka (1968) lists Arikapú and Maxubí as separate languages. Arikapú is spoken on the Branco River south of the Tuparí tribe. Maxubí is spoken on the Mequéns River.[2]

Speakers

In 1998, Arikapú was spoken by only six individuals in Rondônia, Brazil, at the headwaters of the Rio Branco. By 2015, Djeoromitxi (2015)[3] reported there were only two remaining speakers, namely the two sisters Nazaré Wadjidjika Arikapu and Nambuika Arikapu.[4]: 27  It is being supplanted by Portuguese.

Phonology

Arikapú alphabet
aäbddje hiïk' mnopr ttxuüy w

Nasalisation is indicated by a tilde on the vowel : ⟨ã ä̃ ẽ ĩ õ ũ⟩.

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More information Bilabial, Alveolar ...

References

  1. [1]
    Arikapú at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  3. [3]
    Djeoromitxi, A. K. O fortalecimento da língua e cultura Djeromitxi a partir da for-mação dos professores. 2015. 79 f. Monografia (Licenciatura em Educação Básica Intercultu-ral) – Departamento de Educação Intercultural, Universidade Federal de Rondônia (câmpus de Ji-Paraná). 2015.
  4. [4]
    Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília.

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