Karajá

[también conocido como Karajá-Xambioá, Karaho, Caraja]

Clasificación: Isolate

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con amenaza de extinción

Información del idioma

Although Javaé is the most divergent dialect, it's still mutually intelligible with the other three dialects (Southern Karajá, Northern Karajá, and Xambioá). The Javaé tend to be treated differently by speakers of the other dialects (who call them "Ixÿju", a term generally reserved for non-Karajá speaking tribes), but that seems to be due mostly to historical, rather than linguistic differences. The main linguistic difference is that the distinctions between male and female speech, very ubiquitous in the other dialects, are much less so in Javaé. (Eduardo Ribeiro 2016, p.c.)

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