| Kipeá | |
|---|---|
| Kariri | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | between Bahia and Maranhão |
| Ethnicity | Kiriri people |
| Extinct | mid 20th century |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | included in Karirí-Xocó [kzw] |
| Glottolog | kipe1235 |
Kipeá (Quipea), or Kariri, was a Karirian language of Brazil. It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single Kariri language. A short grammatical treatment is available.
Kipeá is well documented by Luiz Mamiani, a Jesuit priest who wrote a grammar[1] and catechism[2] of the Kipeá language during the late 1600s.[3]
The morphology of the Kipeá language is predominantly isolating and analytic, unusual for a language native to the Americas.[4]
Phonology of the Kipeá language:[5]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | |||
| voiced | d͡z | d͡ʒ | ||||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Approximant | j | |||||
A voiced plosive [ɡ] can have an allophone of [ŋ].
| Front | Central | Back | |
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| High | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Low | a ã | ɑ̃ |
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