Bakairí (Bacairí) is a
Cariban language
The Cariban languages are a Language family, family of languages Indigenous to north-eastern South America. They are widespread across northernmost South America, from the mouth of the Amazon River to the Colombian Andes, and they are also spok ...
, spoken by the
Bakairi people
The Bakairi are an indigenous people of Brazil. They speak the Bakairi language, one of the Cariban languages. They call themselves Kurâ, Bakairi being a Portuguese term of unknown origin. They currently live in the Santana and Bakairi Indigeno ...
in the state of
Mato Grosso
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in
Brazil
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.
Phonology
The consonant and vowel inventories for Eastern Bakairí are shown below.
Syntax
Baikarí word order is either
subject–object–verb or
object–verb–subject.
Notes
References
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Languages of Brazil
Cariban languages
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