Ofayé language
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| Ofayé | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Mato Grosso do Sul |
| Ethnicity | 60 Ofayé people (2006)[1] |
Native speakers | 2 (2005)[1] |
Macro-Jê
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | opy |
| Glottolog | ofay1240[2] |
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The Ofayé or Opaye language, also Ofaié-Xavante, Opaié-Shavante, forms its own branch of the Macro-Jê languages. It is spoken by only a couple of the small Ofayé people, though language revitalization efforts are underway.
Phonology[edit]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ||
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ||
| Open | a ã |
| Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio-velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||
| voiced | d | g | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | |||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| Fricative | ʃ | h | |||||
| Nasal | n | ||||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
References[edit]
- ^ a b Ofayé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ofayé". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
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