Kipeá language

{{Infobox language

| name = Kipeá

| nativename = Kariri

| states = Brazil

| region = between Bahia and Maranhão

| ethnicity = Kiriri people ({{ill|Quiriri people|lt=Quiriris|pt|Quiriris}})

| familycolor = macro-je | fontcolor = white

| fam1 = Macro-Gê ?

| fam2 = Karirian

| extinct = mid 20th century

| iso3 = none

| glotto = kipe1235

| glottorefname = Kipea

| image = Arte de gramática da língua brasílica da nação quiriri 005 (Mindlin).jpg

| imagecaption = 1699 grammar of Kipeá

}}

Kipeá (Quipea), or Kariri, is an extinct Karirian language of Brazil. It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single Kariri language. A short grammatical treatise is available.{{Cite journal |last=Larsen |first=Thomas W. |date=1984-10-17 |title=Case Marking and Subjecthood in Kipeá Kirirí |url=http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/BLS/article/view/1928 |journal=Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society |volume=10 |pages=189 |doi=10.3765/bls.v10i0.1928 |issn=2377-1666|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |title=Língua Kiriri : Descrição do dialeto Kipeá (Azevedo 1965) - Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú |url=http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:azevedo-1965 |access-date=2025-02-11 |website=www.etnolinguistica.org}}

Documentation

Kipeá is well documented by Luiz Mamiani, a Jesuit priest who wrote a grammar{{Cite book |last=Mamiani della Rovere |first=Lodovico Vincenzo |url=https://archive.org/details/artedegrammatica00mami/page/16/mode/2up |title=Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam kiriri |last2=Huet |first2=Pierre Daniel |last3=Stewart family. fmo RPJCB |last4=Phillips |first4=Thomas |date=1699 |publisher=Lisboa, : Na Officina de Miguel Deslandes, Impressor de Sua Mag. |others=John Carter Brown Library |pages=15}} and catechismMamiani, Luis Vincencio. 1698. Catecismo da doutrina christãa na lingua brasilica da naçam Kiriri. Lisboa: Miguel Deslandes. of the Kipeá language during the late 1600s.Ribeiro, Eduardo Rivail. On the inclusion of the Karirí family in the Macro-Jê stock: additional evidence. Paper presented at SSILA 2011 (Pittsburgh), January 7, 2011.

Phonology

Phonology of the Kipeá language:de Azevedo, Gilda Maria Corrêa. 1965. Língua kirirí: descrição do dialeto Kipeá. (MA thesis, Universidade de Brasília; 116pp.)

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" \|+ Consonant sounds ! colspan="2" \| ! Labial ! Alveolar !Palatal ! Velar ! Glottal
rowspan="2" \|Plosive !voiceless \|{{IPA link\|p}} \|{{IPA link\|t}} \| \|{{IPA link\|k}} \|
voiced \|{{IPA link\|b}} \|{{IPA link\|d}} \| \|{{IPA link\|ɡ}} \|
colspan="2" \| Nasal \| width="20px" style="border-right: 0;" \|{{IPA link\|m}} \| width="20px" style="border-right: 0;" \|{{IPA link\|n}} \|{{IPA link\|ɲ}} \| width="20px" style="border-right: 0;" \|({{IPA link\|ŋ}}) \|
rowspan="2" \|Affricate !voiceless \| \|{{IPA link\|t͡s}} \|{{IPA link\|t͡ʃ}} \| \|
voiced \| \|{{IPA link\|d͡z}} \|{{IPA link\|d͡ʒ}} \| \|
colspan="2" \|Fricative \| style="border-right: 0;" \| \| style="border-right: 0;" \|{{IPA link\|s}} \| \| style="border-right: 0;" \| \|{{IPA link\|h}}
colspan="2" \|Approximant \| \| \|{{IPA link\|j}} \| \|

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Consonant sounds

! colspan="2" |

! Labial

! Alveolar

!Palatal

! Velar

! Glottal

rowspan="2" |Plosive

!voiceless

|{{IPA link|p}}

|{{IPA link|t}}

|{{IPA link|k}}

voiced

|{{IPA link|b}}

|{{IPA link|d}}

|{{IPA link|ɡ}}

colspan="2" | Nasal

| width="20px" style="border-right: 0;" |{{IPA link|m}}

| width="20px" style="border-right: 0;" |{{IPA link|n}}

|{{IPA link|ɲ}}

| width="20px" style="border-right: 0;" |({{IPA link|ŋ}})

rowspan="2" |Affricate

!voiceless

|{{IPA link|t͡s}}

|{{IPA link|t͡ʃ}}

voiced

|{{IPA link|d͡z}}

|{{IPA link|d͡ʒ}}

colspan="2" |Fricative

| style="border-right: 0;" |

| style="border-right: 0;" |{{IPA link|s}}

| style="border-right: 0;" |

|{{IPA link|h}}

colspan="2" |Approximant

|{{IPA link|j}}

A voiced plosive [ɡ] can have an allophone of [ŋ].

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" \|+ Vowel/Nasal sounds ! ! Front !Central ! Back
High \| align="center" \|{{IPA link\|i}} \|{{IPA link\|ɨ}}\|\| align="center" \|{{IPA link\|u}}
Mid \| align="center" \|{{IPA link\|e}} {{IPA link\|ẽ}} \| \|\| align="center" \|{{IPA link\|o}} {{IPA link\|õ}}
Low \| align="center" \| \|{{IPA link\|a}} {{IPA link\|ã}} \|{{IPA link\|ɑ̃}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Vowel/Nasal sounds

! Front

!Central

! Back

High

| align="center" |{{IPA link|i}}

|{{IPA link|ɨ}}|| align="center" |{{IPA link|u}}

Mid

| align="center" |{{IPA link|e}} {{IPA link|ẽ}}

| || align="center" |{{IPA link|o}} {{IPA link|õ}}

Low

| align="center" |

|{{IPA link|a}} {{IPA link|ã}}

|{{IPA link|ɑ̃}}

Grammar

The morphology of the Kipeá language is predominantly isolating and analytic, unusual for a language native to the Americas.{{cite web|url=http://wals.info/feature/20A#2/0.4/156.3|publisher=WALS|title=Feature 20A: Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives|accessdate=November 13, 2014}}

References

External links

[https://www.linguanaturalis.com/en/kariri/ Kariri dictionary]
[https://etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com/local--files/biblio%3Amamiani-1877%20arte/mamiani_1877_arte_medina.pdf 1877 reprint of grammar]

Category:Analytic languages

Category:Isolating languages

Category:Kariri languages

Category:Extinct languages of South America

Category:Languages extinct in the 20th century