Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

Coleção Nicolai

The Máku of Upper Uraricuera and Uaris Rivers (Territory of Roraima - Brazil) were a hunting and gathering tribe with little agriculture and of unknown linguistic affiliation.
Research done in March-April 1964, under the auspices of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, found only three speakers of the Máku language.
The phonology is presented in three hierarchical levels: Phoneme, Syllable and Phonological Word. The Máku phonemes are: p, t, k, ? , b, d, ts, s, x, h, l, m, n, w, y, i, ü, e, a, u, ï.
Nasalization is phonemic and can occur with all the vowels.
Palatalization occurs with all the stops except /?/, and with /h/, /n/, and /l/. Labialization occurs only with /k/ and /l/.
There is a non-phonemic phonetic phenomena of lenth occurring with the vowels. There are five syllable patterns: V, VC, CV, CVC, CCV. The first two patterns occur only in word initial position . Phonological words consist of one, two, three, four or five syllables, and are characterized by a stress-juncture complex.
The phonology is preceded by an introduction containing an historical background, some cultural traits and the kinship system of the Máku.

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