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Ikpeng language, the Glossary

The Ikpeng language is the language of the Ikpeng people (also known as Txikāo) who live in the Xingu Indigenous National Park in Mato Grosso, Brazil.^[1]

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Cariban languages
Languages of Xingu Indigenous Park

Affix

In linguistics, an affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word or word form.

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Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

See Ikpeng language and Alveolar consonant

Animacy

Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic feature, existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun is.

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Audiovisual (AV) is electronic media possessing both a sound and a visual component, such as slide-tape presentations, films, television programs, corporate conferencing, church services, and live theater productions.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Bilabial consonant

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Cariban languages

The Cariban languages are a family of languages indigenous to north-eastern South America.

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Causative

In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated) is a valency-increasing operationPayne, Thomas E. (1997).

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Data bank

In database management and information architecture, a data bank or databank is a repository of information about one or more subjects, that is, a database which is organized in a way that facilitates local or remote information retrieval and is able to process many continual queries over a long period of time.

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Desiderative mood

In linguistics, a desiderative (abbreviated or) form is one that has the meaning of "wanting to X".

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Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

See Ikpeng language and Front vowel

Grammatical tense

In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference.

See Ikpeng language and Grammatical tense

Greater Antilles

The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Navassa Island, and the Cayman Islands.

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Ikpeng

The Ikpeng (also known as Txikāo) are an indigenous community that now lives in the Xingu Indigenous Park in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

See Ikpeng language and Ikpeng

Intransitive verb

In grammar, an intransitive verb is a verb, aside from an auxiliary verb, whose context does not entail a transitive object.

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Iriri River

The Iriri River (Rio Iriri,; Mẽbêngôkre: Kororoti) is a large tributary of the Xingu River in Brazil, in the state of Pará. It is long making it the 116th longest river in the world (with Krishna River, India) and the 15th longest in the Amazon basin. The headwaters are the traditional home of the Panará people.

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Iteration

Iteration is the repetition of a process in order to generate a (possibly unbounded) sequence of outcomes.

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Jabotá River

The Jabotá River is a river of Mato Grosso state in western Brazil.

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Jari River

The Jari River, or Jary River (Rio Jari), is a northern tributary of the Amazon River on the border between the states of Pará and Amapá in northeastern Brazil.

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Karl von den Steinen

Karl von den Steinen (born March 7, 1855, in Mülheim, died November 4, 1929, in Kronberg im Taunus) was a German physician (with emphasis in psychiatry), ethnologist, explorer, and author of important anthropological work, which is particularly to the study of Indian cultures of Central Brazil, and the art of the Marquesas.

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Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

See Ikpeng language and Lateral consonant

Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso (–) is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region.

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Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression.

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Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.

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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.

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Museu do Índio

O Museu do Índio (English: The Museum of the Indigenous Populations) is a cultural and scientific agency of the Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (English: National Foundation of Indigenous Populations) or FUNAI.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

See Ikpeng language and Nasal consonant

Object (grammar)

In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

See Ikpeng language and Open vowel

Oral history

Oral history is the collection and study of historical information about people, families, important events, or everyday life using audiotapes, videotapes, or transcriptions of planned interviews.

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Orthography

An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.

See Ikpeng language and Orthography

Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

See Ikpeng language and Palatal consonant

Pedagogy

Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners.

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Pekodian languages

The Pekodian languages are a subgroup of the Cariban language family. Ikpeng language and Pekodian languages are Cariban languages.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Prefix

A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.

See Ikpeng language and Prefix

Prosody (linguistics)

In linguistics, prosody is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but which are properties of syllables and larger units of speech, including linguistic functions such as intonation, stress, and rhythm.

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Ronuro River

The Ronuro River is a river of Mato Grosso state in western Brazil, a tributary of the Xingu River.

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Semivowel

In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.

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Subject (grammar)

A subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject).

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

See Ikpeng language and Suffix

Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.

See Ikpeng language and Syntax

Tap and flap consonants

In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.

See Ikpeng language and Tap and flap consonants

Teles Pires

The Teles Pires (Rio São Manuel) is a long river in Brazil. The river flows through the state of Mato Grosso and its lower part marks the border between the states of Mato Grosso and Pará. At its mouth it joins Juruena River and together they form the Tapajós, which is one of the biggest tributaries of the Amazon River.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikpeng_language

Also known as Chicão language, ISO 639:txi, Txikão language.

, The Guianas, Transitive verb, Valency (linguistics), Velar consonant, Venezuela, Villas-Bôas brothers, Xingu Indigenous Park, Xingu River.

Ikpeng language, the Glossary

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See also

Cariban languages

Languages of Xingu Indigenous Park

References