Pará Gavião language
| Pará Gavião | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Maranhão, Pará, Tocantins |
| Ethnicity | Gavião |
Native speakers | 600–700 (2020)[1] |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gvp |
| Glottolog | para1315 |
| ELP | Gavião de Parã |
Pará Gavião is part of the Timbira (Northern Jê) dialect cluster of Brazil.
Varieties
Linguistic varieties of Gavião include:[1]
- Krĩkatí, spoken in Terra Indígena Krikati, Maranhão
- Pykobjê, 600 speakers in Terra Indígena Governador close to Amarante, Maranhão
- Parkatêjê, 12 speakers in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria, Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará
- Kỳikatêjê, 9 speakers in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria, Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará
See Timbira language for details.
References
- ^ a b Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
