Pará Gavião language

Pará Gavião
Pará Gavião
Native to	Brazil
Region	Maranhão, Pará, Tocantins
Ethnicity	Gavião
Native speakers	600–700 (2020)[1]
Language family	Macro-Jê Jê Cerrado Jê of Goyaz Northern Jê Timbira Pará Gavião; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Krĩkatí; Pykobjê; Parkatêjê; Kỳikatêjê;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gvp
Glottolog	para1315
ELP	Gavião de Parã [sic]

Pará Gavião is part of the Timbira (Northern Jê) dialect cluster of Brazil.

Varieties

Linguistic varieties of Gavião include:[1]

Krĩkatí, spoken in Terra Indígena Krikati, Maranhão
Pykobjê, 600 speakers in Terra Indígena Governador close to Amarante, Maranhão
Parkatêjê, 12 speakers in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria, Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará
Kỳikatêjê, 9 speakers in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria, Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará

See Timbira language for details.

Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Brasília: Universidade de Brasília.

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