Open AccessAFIRST OVERVIEW OF MORPHOLOGY OF KANOÊ
Author(s) -
Laércio Nora Bacelar
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
signótica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2316-3690
pISSN - 0103-7250
DOI - 10.5216/sig.v17i2.3728
Subject(s) - indigenous , geography , endangered species , linguistics , dialectology , ethnology , sociology , demography , ecology , philosophy , population , biology
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 areas of Deolinda, Sagarana and Rio Guaporé, and also a family in the border of Omeré river, in the south of Rondônia, Brazil The partial data here introduced were carried out in two field work sessions (June 1991, January 1997) and submitted to the usual analytic methods in Descriptive Linguistics