Tenetehara language

Tenetehára
Guajajara
Native to Brazil
Ethnicity 19,500 Guajajara (2006), 820 Tembé (1999), 60 Turiwara (1998)[1]
Native speakers
 13,000 (2006)[1]
Tupian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
gub – Guajajara
tqb – Tembé
Glottolog temb1276[2]

Tenetehára is a Tupi–Guarani language of Brazil. Sociolinguistically, it is two languages, Guajajara (Guazazzara) and Tembe, though these are mutually intelligible. Tembe was spoken by less than a quarter of its ethnic population of 820 in 2000; Guajajara, on the other hand, is more robust, being spoken by two thirds of its 20,000 people.

Sounds

Consonants in Tenetehára:

Bilabial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Labial-velar Glottal
Stop p t k kʷ ʔ
Affricate ts
Fricative z h
Flap ɾ
Nasal m n ŋ ŋʷ
Approximant j w

Vowels in Tenetehára:

Front Central Back
High i ɨ u
Mid ɛ ə ɔ
Low a

Tembe

Consonants in the Tembe dialect:

Bilabial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Labial-velar Glottal
Stop plain p t k kʷ ʔ
voiced d
Fricative s h
Flap ɾ
Nasal m n ŋ ŋʷ
Approximant j w

Vowels in the Tembe dialect:

Front Central Back
High i ɨ u
Mid e ə o
Low a

References

  1. 1 2 Guajajara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Tembé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tembe". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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