Guató language
| Guató | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Mato Grosso |
| Ethnicity | 370 Guató people (2008)[1] |
Native speakers | 4 (2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gta |
| Glottolog | guat1253 |
| ELP | Guató |
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Guató is a possible language isolate spoken by 1% of the Guató people of Brazil. Kaufman (1990) provisionally classified it as a branch of the Macro-Jê languages, but no evidence for this was found by Eduardo Ribeiro.
Phonology
The Guato vowel system, like that of Macro-Jê languages, collapses a three-way distinction of height in oral vowels to two in nasal vowels.[2]
| Oral | Nasal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | Front | Central | Back | |
| Close | i | ɨ | u | ĩ | ɨ̃ | ũ |
| Mid | e | o | ẽ | ã | ||
| Open | ɛ | a | ɔ | |||
| Labial | Denti- alveolar |
Post- alveolar |
Velar | Labio- velar |
Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Plosive | voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ɡʷ | |
| voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | kʷ | ||
| Fricative | f | h | |||||
| Sonorant | w | ɾ | j | ||||
References
- ^ a b Guató at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ A. P. Palacios, 1984; A. V. Postigo, 2009
- Alain Fabre, 2005, Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: GUATÓ.[1]