Gavião of Jiparaná

Gaviao of Jiparana (Gavião do Jiparaná), also known as "Digüt" (a chief's name^[3]), Ikolen and Gavião do Rondônia, or in the language itself, Ikó̱ló̱éhj,^[4] 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.

Gavião of Jiparaná
Gavião of Rondônia
Ikó̱ló̱éhj
Native to	Brazil
Region	Rondônia
Ethnicity	520 Gavião (2004),[1] 787 Zoró (2020)
Native speakers	340 (2006)[1]
Language family	Tupian Monde Gavião of Jiparaná
Dialects	Zoró
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gvo
Glottolog	gavi1246  Gavião do Jiparaná zoro1244  Zoró
ELP	Gavião
	Zoró[2]

Phonology

Consonants

Gavião consonants^[4]

		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

Gavião vowels^[4]

		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

References

1. Gavião of Jiparaná at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Endangered Languages Project data for Zoró.
3. Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E.; Tait, Mary (1994), Atlas of the world's languages, London ; New York: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-01925-5
4. Sona-Gavião, Iram Káv (2019). Nomes, verbos, adjetivos, posposições e predicações na língua dos ikólóéhj (Gavião, Fam. Mondé, Tronco Tupí) (PDF) (masters thesis). Universidade de Brasília.

External links

• ELAR archive of Gavião and Suruí Languages in whistled and instrumental speech by Julien Meyer
• ELAR archive of Language Documentation of traditional culture among the Gavião and Suruí of Rondônia by Dennis Moore