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| Zoʼé | |
|---|---|
| Poturu, Poturujara, Buré | |
| Jo'é | |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Pará, Obidos Municipality, Cuminapanema River |
| Ethnicity | Zoʼé |
Native speakers | (150 cited 1998)[1] |
Tupian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pto |
| Glottolog | zoee1240 |
| ELP | Zo'é |
Zoʼé (Joʼé) is spoken by the indigenous Zoʼé people of Pará, Brazil. It is close to the Emerillon language.
Zoʼé is also known as Zoé, Buré, Poturu, Poturujara, and Tupí of Cunimapanema.
Phonology
Zo’é has the following vowels and consonants[2] as depicted in the tables below.
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | pal. | lab. | plain | pal. | lab. | plain | pal. | lab. | plain | pal. | lab. | plain | pal. | lab. | plain | pal. | |||
| Nasal | m | mʲ | n | nʲ | ŋ | ŋʲ | |||||||||||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | pʲ | t | k | kʲ | kʷ | ||||||||||||
| voiced | b | bʲ | d | ɡ | ɡʲ | gʷ | ʔ | ||||||||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | t͡ʃʷ | ||||||||||||||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | s | θ | h | hʲ | |||||||||||||
| voiced | β | ð | |||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||||||||||||||||
| Liquid | ɾ | ||||||||||||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i/ĩ | ɨ/ɨ̃ | u/ũ |
| Close-mid | e/ẽ | o/õ | |
| Open-mid | ɛ/ɛ̃ | ɔ/ɔ̃ | |
| Open | a/ã |
Notes
- ^ Zoʼé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ de Castro, Onesimo M.; Hitotuzi, Nilton V.; Tatagiba, Alessandro B.; Vale, Maria da Conceiçao Q. (2024-09-24). "Interpretation of Ambiguous Segments in the Zo'é Language" (PDF). Education and Linguistics Research. 10 (2): 17–43. ISSN 2377-1356. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
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