AFIRST OVERVIEW OF MORPHOLOGY OF KANOÊ

This article presents a first parts of speech description in Kanoê, a Brazilian isolated indigenous language, that finds endangered from short term, because it has a very small number of speakers (about five), between almost a hundred of remaining. They live dispersed in the indigenous are...

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Main Author: LAÉRCIO NORA BACELAR
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Federal University of Goiás 2005-01-01
Series:Signótica
Online Access:http://www.revistas.ufg.br/index.php/sig/article/view/3728
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Summary:This article presents a first parts of speech description in Kano&ecirc;, a Brazilian isolated indigenous language, that finds endangered from short term, because it has a very small number of speakers (about five), between almost a hundred of remaining. They live dispersed in the indigenous areas of Deolinda, Sagarana and Rio Guapor&eacute;, and also a family in the border of Omer&eacute; river, in the south of Rond&ocirc;nia, Brazil The partial data here introduced were carried out in two field<br />work sessions (June 1991, January 1997) and submitted to the usual analytic methods in Descriptive Linguistics.
ISSN:0103-7250