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Karajá, also known as ''Ynã'', is spoken by the Karajá people in some thirty villages in central Brazil. Dialects are North Karaja, South Karaja, Xambioá, and Javaé. There are distinct male and female forms of speech; one of the principal differences is that men drop the sound , which is pronounced by women. Karaja is a verb-final language,〔Rodrigues (1999), pp. 187-88〕 with simple noun and more complex verbal morphology that includes noun incorporation. Verbs inflect for direction as well as person, mood, object, and voice. ==Phonology== Karajá has nine oral vowels, , and two nasal vowels, . is nasalized word initially and when preceded by or a voiced stop: → 'grass', → 'armadillo'; this in turn nasalizes a preceding or : → 'group', → 'my mother'.〔Rodrigues (1999), pp. 172-73〕 This language has vowel harmony that matches vowels' tenseness to the vowel of the following suffix.〔 V → () / _ (C)-V() There are only twelve consonants, eight of which are coronal:〔Rodgrigues (1999), pp. 176-78〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karajá language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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