Krenak language
Endangered Macro-Gê language of the Botocudo people of Brazil
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The Krenak language, also Borum or Botocudo, is an Indigenous language of Brazil classified as an independent branch of the Macro-Gê languages. It was once spoken by the Botocudo people in Minas Gerais, but is known primarily by older women today.
| Krenak | |
|---|---|
| Botocudo | |
| Borum | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Minas Gerais |
| Ethnicity | 150 Botocudo (2006)[1] |
Native speakers | 10 (2006)[1] |
Macro-Gê
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kqq |
| Glottolog | kren1239 |
| ELP | Krenak |
| Linguasphere | 89-JAA-aa |
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 Krenak is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Phonology
/h/ can also have an allophone of a velar [x].
Prenasal allophones [ᵐb, ⁿd, ⁿd͡ʒ, ᵑɡ] are heard as a result of a preceding nasal or nasal vowel before a voiced stop sound.[2]
Vocabulary
Several lexical loans from one of the Língua Geral varieties have been found identified. Examples include tuŋ ‘flea’ and krai ‘non-Indigenous person, foreigner’.[3]
