Kaingang language
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Kaingang language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
| Kaingang | |
|---|---|
| kanhgág | |
| Spoken in |  Brazil |
| Region | São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul |
| Native speakers | 18,000[1] (date missing) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kgp |
The Kaingang language (also spelled Kaingáng) is an indigenous language spoken in the South of Brazil, belonging to the Gê language family.[2] The Kaingang nation has about 30,000 people, and about from 60% to 65% speak the language. The majority also speaks Portuguese.
[edit] Culture
The Kaingang language is classified as a member of the Ge family, the largest language family in the Macro-Ge stock. The Kaingang territory occupies the modern states of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (and, until the beginning of the 20th century, Misiones, Argentina). Today they live in around 30 indigenous lands (similar to Native American reservations), especially at Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná.
In the 1960s, because of a missionary interest (conducted by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL)), the language was studied by Ursula Wiesemann.[3] Wiesemann proposed an orthography for the language, which is still in use (in spite of some troubles). Examples of Kaingang writing can be found on Omniglot.
[edit] References
- ^ "Ethnologue Report on Kaingáng". http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kgp.
- ^ Rodrigues, Aryon Dall'Igna (1986) (in Portuguese). Línguas brasileiras. Para o conhecimento das línguas indígenas. São Paulo: Ed. Loyola.
- ^ Wiesemann, Ursula (1972) (in German). Die phonologische und grammatische Struktur der Kaingáng-Sprache. The Hague: Mouton.
D'Angelis, Wilmar R. (1998) (in Portuguese). Traços de modo e modos de traçar geometrias: línguas Macro-Jê & teoria fonológica. Tese de Doutorado, 2 vols.. Campinas, Brazil: IEL-Unicamp.
[edit] External links
- Catálogo de Línguas Sul-Americanas: Kaingáng
- Portal Kaingang
- Kaingang phonology and Macro-Ge languages
- Comparison of English and Kaingang phrases
- Jolkesky, M. P. V. (2006a). Língua, lexicografia e os SILogismos em Kaingang - Português Dicionário Bilingüe. (manuscrito)
- Jolkesky, M. P. V. (2006b). Análise semiótica de um texto Kaingáng. (manuscrito)
- Jolkesky, M. P. V. (2009). Fonologia e prosódia do Kaingáng falado em Cacique Doble (RS). Anais do XIV SETA - Seminário de Teses em Andamento, 3:675-685. Campinas: Editora do IEL-UNICAMP. (anexo)
- Jolkesky, M. P. V.; Santos, L. C. (2008). Construções relativas restritivas em Kaingáng. Em: S. Telles & A. S. de Paula (orgs.) Topicalizando Macro-Jê, 247-260. Recife: NECTAR.
