Language name and locationː Krikati-Timbira, Maranhão, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区: 克里卡迪-廷比拉语, 巴西东北部马拉尼昂州

 

1. pet'ʃe  

2. ẽʰ.pes'krot

3. ẽʰ.krii    

4. quatro ...., 1000. mɛh

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Talita Rodrigues da Silva, Centre of Linguistics / FFLCH, University of San Paulo, Brazil, July 4, 2010.

供资料的语言学家: Dr. Talita Rodrigues da Silva, 2010 年 7 月 4 日.

 

Other comments: Krikati-Timbira or Krikati-Gaviao is spoken by approximately 680 speakers in Maranhão state: Amarante municipality, Governador village. The above data were taken from variant of Timbira, Pykobjê-Gavião, from south of state of Maranhão (northeast of Brazil). In this linguistic variant of Timbira. what we could observe is that Pykobjê has just three cardinal numbers. The others ones are all taken from Portuguese, the closest language they have contact. Some words from numeral class suffer phonological adaptations, just like ‘1000’. About the ordinary number system, we could observe they are not in use, nowadays. All of them are borrowed from Portuguese.


Language name and locationː Krikati-Timbira, Maranhão, Brazil [Refer to Ethnologue]

言名称和分布地区: 克里卡迪-廷比拉语, 巴西东北部马拉尼昂州

 

1. petxy [pɛtxə]  

2. peskrot [pɛskhrɔt]

3. enkri [ɛŋkri]  

4. Many

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Prof. Rosane Armado, Director, Centre of Linguistics / FFLCH, University of San Paulo, Brazil, March 29, 2009.

供资料的语言学家: Prof. Rosane Armado, 2009 年 3 月 29 日.

 

Other comments: The above data were taken from variant of Timbira, Pykobjê-Gavião, from south of state of Maranhão (northeast of Brazil). In this linguistic variant of Timbira, there are only three numbers, above this, Gavião speakers use "many, a lot".

I know that they use also numbers from Portuguese: 4 (quatro), 5 (cinco) and others, but I don't know if there are phonological adaptations, because in my last researches

I didn't work with loanwords. I've been orientated a post-graduation student who will continue the study with this language, with word classes. She will be able to research this issue, about numeral system, in her fieldwork, that will be, probably, next July.


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