Bakairi language

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

Bakairí
Bacairí
Kurâ
Native to	Brazil
Region	Mato Grosso
Native speakers	(950 cited 1999)[1]
Language family	Cariban Pekodian Bakairí
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bkq
Glottolog	baka1277
ELP	Bakairí

Phonology

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

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative	voiceless		s	ʃ		h
	voiced		z	(ʒ)
Nasal		m	n	(ɲ)
Liquid	rhotic		ɾ
	lateral		l
Glide		w		j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e	ə	o
Low		a

Syntax

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

Notes

1. Bakairí at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Meira 2005.
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.