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Canela Language
Canela is a dialect of the Canela-Krahô language, a Timbira variety of the Northern Jê language group ( Jê, Macro-Jê) spoken by the Apà njêkra (Apaniêkrá) and by the MẽmõrtÅ©mre (Rà mkôkãmẽkra, Ramkokamekrá) in Maranhão, Brazil. Phonology Vowels * Consonants * Stop sounds /p, t, k/ can be heard as voiced , d, É¡in syllable-initial position within unstressed syllables, following voicing and in syllable-final position following voicing. * A velar nasal /Å‹/ can fluctuate in free variation with a prenasalized and voiced plosive ‹É¡~É¡between dialects. * /tÍ¡s/ is recognized as a post-alveolar /t͡ʃ/ among dialectal differences. * /n, m/ can be heard as prestopped µˆn, ᵇmwhen after oral vowels. * /v/ is only heard in syllable-initial position, elsewhere it is pronounced as * /j/ is heard as when in final position of consonant clusters and in initial position within stressed syllables, and is nasalized as ̃before nasal vowels. It is heard as e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is BrasÃlia, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of . It borders all other countries and territories in South America except Ecuador and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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