The Yabutian or Jabutian languages are two similar
moribund languages of southern
Rondônia
Rondônia () is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northern subdivision of the country (central-western part). To the west is a short border with the state of Acre, to the north is the state of Amazonas, in the east is Mato Grosso, ...
, Brazil, namely
Arikapú (MaxubÃ) and
Djeoromitxi (YabutÃ/JabotÃ). They are members of the
Macro-Je language family.
Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for Yabutian language varieties.
:
Proto-language
Proto-Jabutà reconstructions by van der Voort (2007):
[van der Voort, H. (2007). Proto-JabutÃ: um primeiro passo na reconstrução da lÃngua ancestral dos Arikapú e DjeoromitxÃ. In Boletim do Museu Paraense EmÃlio Goeldi (Ciências humanas) 2 (2):133-168. Accessed fro]
DiACL
9 February 2020.
For a list of Proto-Jabutà reconstructions by Nikulin (2020),
[Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. ]
Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo
'. Doctoral dissertation, University of BrasÃlia. see the corresponding
Portuguese article.
References
Further reading
* Fabre, Alain (2005).
Diccionario etnolingüÃstico y guÃa bibliográfica de los pueblos indÃgenas sudamericanos: JABUTI'.
* Ribeiro, Eduardo & Hein van der Voort. 2010. "Nimuendajú was right: The inclusion of the Jabutà language family in the Macro-Jê stock." ''International Journal of American Linguistics'', 76(4), pp. 517-570. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/658056.
External links
Amazonian Languages of Rondônia and Bolivia
{{South American languages
Nuclear Macro-Jê languages
Languages of Brazil
Indigenous languages of South America (Central)
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