Pai Tavytera language
| Pãi Tavyterã | |
|---|---|
| Ava, Pãi, Tavyterã | |
| Native to | Paraguay |
| Ethnicity | 8,030 Pai Tavytera people (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 600 (2007)[1] |
Tupian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pta |
| Glottolog | pait1247 |
Pãi Tavyterã is a Guarani language spoken by about 600 Pai Tavytera people in eastern Paraguay, in Amambay, eastern Concepción, eastern San Pedro, and northern Canindeyú Departments. The language has 70% lexical similarity with the Kaiwá language, spoken in Brazil. Among Pai Tavyetera people, language use is shifting towards Guaraní.[1]
The language is written in the Latin script.[2]
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Open | a ã |
- Six shortened vowels both oral and nasal are heard as /ĭ ɨ̆ ŭ/ and /ĩ̆ ɨ̃̆ ũ̆/.
Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | ʝ | h | |||
| Rhotic | ɾ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | (ŋ) | |||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | w | ||||
- /ʝ/ can also be heard as an affricate [ɟʝ].
- /b d ʝ ɡ/ may also be prenasalized as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᶮʝ, ᵑɡ].
- /n/ is heard as [ŋ] before velar consonants.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c Pãi Tavyterã at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Pai Tavytera." Script Source. 2011. Retrieved 20 Jan 2012.
- ^ Escobar-Imlach, Celeste Mariana (2017). Aspectos fónicos, fonológicos y morfofonológicos del pai tavytera guaraní. México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.
External links
[edit]- Paï-Tavytera, Countries and Their Cultures
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