Kayabí (Caiabi; also Kawaiwete) is a

Tupian language The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani. Homeland and ''urheimat'' Rodrigues (2007) considers the Proto-Tupian urheimat to be somewhere between ...

spoken by the

Kayabí The Kayabí or Kaiabi are an indigenous people of Brazil inhabiting the northern state of Mato Grosso. They primarily live in the Xingu Indigenous Park and the Indian Reservation of Apiaká-Kayabi south of Pará. There are approximately 1300 K ...

people of

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighboring ...

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. Although the Kayabi call themselves ''Kagwahiva'', their language is not part of the

Kagwahiva language Kawahíva (Kawahíb, Kagwahib) is a Tupi–Guarani dialect cluster of Brazil. The major variety is Tenharim. The Tenharim (self-designation, Pyri 'near, together'), Parintintín, Jiahúi, Amondawa, Karipúna (not to be confused with neither ...

. It is spoken in the

Xingu Indigenous Park The Xingu Indigenous Park (, pronounced ) is an indigenous territory of Brazil, first created in 1961 as a national park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Its official purposes are to protect the environment and the several tribes of Xingu in ...

and Apiaká-Kayabi Indigenous Territory.

Phonology

Consonants

/f/ can also be heard as a bilabial fricative .

Vowels

References

External links

* Lapierre, Myriam. 2018.
Kawaiwete Field Materials
'.

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. Tupi–Guarani languages Object–subject–verb languages Languages of Xingu Indigenous Park {{tupian-lang-stub