The Yabutian or Jabutian languages are two similar
moribund language
An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead langu ...
s of southern
Rondônia, Brazil, namely
Arikapú (Maxubí) and
Djeoromitxi (Yabutí/Jabotí). 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-Jabutí reconstructions by van der Voort (2007):
[van der Voort, H. (2007). Proto-Jabutí: um primeiro passo na reconstrução da língua ancestral dos Arikapú e Djeoromitxí. In Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Ciências humanas) 2 (2):133-168. Accessed fro]
DiACL
9 February 2020.
For a list of Proto-Jabutí reconstructions by Nikulin (2020),
[Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. ]
Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo
'. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília. see the corresponding
Portuguese article.
References
Further reading
* Fabre, Alain (2005).
Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: JABUTI'.
* Ribeiro, Eduardo & Hein van der Voort. 2010. "Nimuendajú was right: The inclusion of the Jabutí 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
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{{South American languages
Nuclear Macro-Jê languages
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