Relations between Graphemes and Segments in the Waurá and Mehináku Vocabularies of the Steinen (1886[1940 ]
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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v3i1.1013Keywords:
Indigenous Languages, Arawak Family, Mehinak, WauraAbstract
The book Entre os aborígenes do Brasil Central (Steinen, 1886[1940]) includes very important descriptions of the indigenous nations of the Xingu region, presently known as the Xingu Indigenous Park. This work, aside from ethnographic and geographical informations, includes as appendices short vocabularies of Xinguan languages such as Mehinaku, Waura, Kustenau and Yawalapiti, all members of the Arawak or Aruak family. In this article, I only consider the Waura and Mehinaku vocabularies, attempting to establish a relationship between the graphemes used by Karl von den Steinen and the analysis and interpretation of the data in terms of the phones and phonemes of these two languages.
KEYWORDS: Indigenous Languages. Arawak Family. Mehinak. Waura.
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