Maxakalí (Yĩy'ax 'language', Tikmũ'ũn Yĩy'ax 'Maxakalí language') is a Maxakalían language spoken in fourteen villages in Minas Gerais, Brazil, by fewer than a thousand people.
Dialects
Mason identifies six varieties of Maxakali. All but Maxakalí proper are extinct:
Maxakalí
Caposhó (Kapoxo) (†)
Cumanashó (Kumanaxo) (†)
Maconí (Makuni) (†)
Monoshó (Monaxo, Monocho) (†)
Panyame (†)
Phonology
Maxakalí has five vowels, occurring in both oral and nasal form.
Vowels
Consonants
Allophony
Syntax
Word order
The most common word order in Maxakalí is SOV.
"The child drinks milk"
Morphosyntactic alignment
Maxakalí is an ergative language. The ergative case covers transitive subjects as well as indirect objects. The absolutive case covers intransitive subjects...
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