Jê languages
The total languages ( pronunciation: [ ʒe ː ], with accent: Gê languages , including: Jê languages), represent an indigenous American language family, which is widespread in central, eastern and southern Brazil and consists of 13 individual languages.
Structure
- Central Group: Acroá [ acs ]
- Acua group: Xavante [ xav ]
- Xerente [ xer ]
- Xakriabá [ xkr ]
- Apinayé [ apn ]
- Kayapó [ txu ]
- Kreen - Akarore [ kre ]
- Suyá [ suy ]
- Timbira group: Gavião, Pará [ gvp ]
- Krahô [ xra ]
- Kreyenfeld [ XRE ]
- Krikati - Timbira [ xri ]
Speaker richest language is the Xavante with about 10,000 speakers. Acroá and Xakriabá are already extinct.
The total languages can be extended to a larger genealogy group is called the Macro -Ge.
Linguistic characteristics
The Canela ( Timbira group s, o ) is a language with the basic word order of subject-object - verb ( SOV ) and knows capitalized, accusative and ergativische sentence constructions, besides also Experiens constructions. The case are mainly indicated by postpositions.
Swell
- Helmut Glück ( ed.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. Stuttgart and Weimar, Metzler 1993.