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Kỳikatêjê or Kyikatêjê is a dialect of Pará Gavião, a Jê language of Brazil. It spoken by the Kỳikatêjê people in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria (Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará). Almost all speakers are over 40 years old; the younger generations have shifted to Portuguese. Kỳikatêjê is closely related to the Parkatêjê dialect, spoken by another Timbira group in the same reservation.

Phonology

Consonants

The consonantal inventory of Kỳikatêjê is as follows.

The stops /p k t/ are sometimes phonetically aspirated in coda: /pɨtit/ ‘one’. The approximant /j/ surfaces as preceding one of /ɨ̃ ĩ/, as in /mpɔ-jĩ/ ‘meat’, /pa mũ jɨ̃/ ‘I sat down’. /n/ is optionally assimilated to before /k/, as in ~ ‘small’. The voiced labial fricative and the glottal stop have been attested in one word each, ‘bird’ and ‘hen’.

Available complex onsets include /pɾ kɾ mp/ (and possibly others). The maximum syllable in Kỳikatêjê is /CCVC/.

Vowels

The vowel inventory of Kỳikatêjê is as follows.

References

1. ^ Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.
2. ^ Barboza, Tereza; Costa, Lucivaldo; Sompré, Concita (2016). "Situação sociolinguística dos Gavião Kyikatejê". Domínios de Lingu@gem. 10 (4): 1238–1256. doi:10.14393/DL27-v10n4a2016-3.
3. ^ Silva, Marília de Nazaré Ferreira (2014). "Descrição fonético-fonológica do Kyikatêjê". Letras de Hoje. 49 (1): 56. doi:10.15448/1984-7726.2014.1.14864.

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