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[2]
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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.[3]

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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guató at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Guató". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ A. P. Palacios, 1984; A. V. Postigo, 2009