Gavião of Jiparaná
Tupian language spoken in Brazil
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Gaviao of Jiparana (Gavião do Jiparaná), also known as "Digüt" (a chief's name[2]), Ikolen and Gavião do Rondônia, or in the language itself, Ikó̱ló̱éhj,[3] is the language of the Gavião of Rondônia, Brazil. It is a Tupian language of the Monde branch. It is partially intelligible with Suruí. The Zoró dialect spoken by the Zoró people is sometimes considered a separate language.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Alveolopalatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occlusive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | g | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | ts | tʃ | |||
| voiced | dz | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | β | ||||
| voiced | ||||||
| Lateral | voiced | l | ||||
| Flap | r | |||||
| Approximant | j | |||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | nasal | plain | nasal | plain | nasal | ||
| High | short | i | ĩ | ɨ | ɨ̃ | ||
| long | iː | ĩː | ɨː | ɨ̃ː | |||
| Mid | short | e | ẽ | o | õ | ||
| long | eː | ẽː | oː | õː | |||
| Low | short | a | ã | ||||
| long | aː | ãː | |||||
