Zoʼé (Joʼé) is a Tupian language spoken by the indigenous Zoʼé people of Pará, Brazil. It is close to the Emerillon language.
| 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 is also known as Zoé, Buré, Poturu, Poturujara, and Tupí of Cunimapanema.
Phonology
editZo’é has the following vowels and consonants[2] as depicted in the tables below.
Consonants
edit| 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
editNotes
edit- ↑ 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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