PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF KITHÃUHLU LANGUAGE: NASALITY
Indigenous languages; kitãuhlu; Nasality
The Nambikwara people speak different languages belonging to the linguistic family of the same name. Price (1972) classifies the Nambikwara linguistic family into three groups, namely Sabanê, North Nambikwara and South Nambikwara. As far as we know, it is a group of languages that do not find genetic kinship in any other linguistic group in Brazil or even Latin America. To describe aspects of the grammars of these languages is to enable the establishment of relationships between them, which would have a direct repercussion on the production of specific teaching materials for each linguistic group. Our objective is to describe the phonetics and phonology of the Kitãuhlu language with a focus on nasal trait behavior in this language.