Harmonia Vocálica como Processo Desencadeador de Mudanças Estruturais na Língua Guajá. (Vocalic Harmony as a Trigger to Structural Changes in Guajá.)
The Guajá language is spoken by about 250 individuals who live in the Awá, Caru and Alto Turiaçú Indigenous Areas on the northeast of the state of Maranhão, Brazil. It is a Tupí-Guaraní language of the branch VIII, with Takunyapé, Urubú-Ka’apór, Wayampí, Wayampipukú, Emérillon, and Zo’é (Rodrigues a...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2006 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB) |
| Repositório: | Estudos da Língua(gem) |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.periodicos2.uesb.br:article/1024 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/1024 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Línguas indígenas Tupí-Guaraní Guajá Descrição lingüística Indigenous languages Linguistic description |
| Resumo: | The Guajá language is spoken by about 250 individuals who live in the Awá, Caru and Alto Turiaçú Indigenous Areas on the northeast of the state of Maranhão, Brazil. It is a Tupí-Guaraní language of the branch VIII, with Takunyapé, Urubú-Ka’apór, Wayampí, Wayampipukú, Emérillon, and Zo’é (Rodrigues and Cabral, 2002). This paper deals with on-going speech structural changes in youngsters, contrasting these data to older generation ones, emphasizing possible consequences of the vocalic harmony process in youngsters’ speech production to the stability of the relational morphemes system, which is one of the most conservative structural feature of the Tupí-Guaraní family. KEYWORDS: Indigenous languages. Tupí-Guaraní. Guajá. Linguistic description. |
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