Bakairi_language

Bakairi language

Bakairi language

Cariban language of Brazil

Bakairí (Bacairí) is a Cariban language, spoken by the Bakairi people in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil.

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Phonology

The consonant and vowel inventories for Eastern Bakairí are shown below.[2]

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Syntax

Baikarí word order is either subject–object–verb or object–verb–subject.[3]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Bakairí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Meira 2005.
  3. [3]
    "Bakairí". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-02-07.

References

  • Faria, Geraldo Pinto De, Junior (2022). A Grammar of the Bakairi Language (PhD thesis). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. doi:10.48273/lot0609. ISBN 978-94-6093-394-3.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Meira, Sérgio (2005). "Reconstructing Pre-Bakairi Segmental Phonology". Anthropological Linguistics. 47 (3): 261–291. JSTOR 25132338.
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