Mato Grosso Arára language

Extinct unclassified language of Brazil

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Arára
Yugapkatã
Native to	Brazil
Region	Mato Grosso
Extinct	20th century
Language family	unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`axg`
Glottolog	`mato1253`
ELP	Arára of Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso Arára (also disambiguated as Arara do Beiradão or Arara do Rio Branco, and also known as Koaiá ~ Koayá or Yugapkatã^[1]) is an extinct unclassified language of Brazil. The ethnic population that spoke the language numbers about 150.

Classification

The language is unclassified, with no known connections to established families. It is attested in a single word list, which shows it is neither Tupian nor Arawakan. Four people remembered the language in 2001, and two in 2008, but none were fluent speakers.^[2]

Jolkesky (2010) notes some lexical similarities with Tupian.^[3]

Vocabulary

The following vocabulary list was collected in 2011 by Inês Hargreaves from two Arara groups in the north of the Parque Aripuanã, Rondônia. The informants were João Luis V. Arara, José Rodrigues V. Arara, Maria Aruy Arara, and Ana Anita Arara.^[4]

Arara do Rio Branco word list
Arara do Rio Branco	English
mbaja	child
no pai	claw
kubai wit	to drink
no beʃia	ear
no ka pĩn	eye
areka	fire
no pia	foot
nukij	good
mbap	hair
kopap	head
nduka	louse
be ʃa	mouth
no jan	nose
wjaʔ	stone
noĩn	tooth
adɛ	water

For a more extensive vocabulary list of Arara by Jolkesky (2010),^[5] see the corresponding Portuguese article.

References

^ Ramirez, Henri. 2010. Etnônimos e topônimos no Madeira (séculos XVI-XX): um sem-número de equívocos. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica v. 2 n. 2, p. 179-224. (PDF)
^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
^ Jolkesky, Marcelo. 2010. Arara do Rio Branco e o tronco Tupí.
^ "Arara do Rio Branco" (PDF). www2.unucseh.ueg.br (in English and Portuguese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
^ Jolkesky, Marcelo. 2010. Arara do Rio Branco e o tronco Tupí.

External links

Wiktionary has word lists at Appendix:Mato Grosso Arára word lists

Lev, Michael; Stark, Tammy; Chang, Will (2012). "Phonological inventory of Arára do Mato Grosso". The South American Phonological Inventory Database (version 1.1.3 ed.). Berkeley: University of California: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource.

Indigenous language families and isolates of South America
(based on Campbell 2012 classification)

Language families
and isolates