Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

Coleção Nicolai

The Tiriyó (Karíb) are located in the Tumucumaque range between Brazil and Dutch Guiana. They number about 800 and call themselves /tïrïó/ 'beating with club - people'. The de Oeste River, State of Pará, Brazil, where about one hundred monolingual speakers live with very little contact with the regional Brazilian society. Research was done under the auspices of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
These preliminary phonological notes are presented in five hierarchical levels: phonemes, syllables, fonological words, intonation contours, and pause groups. Seventeen are the segmental phonemes: p, t, k, š, m, n, ñ, r, w, y, i, e, a, ǝ, ï, u, o. Stress is phonemic. There are four syllable patterns: V, CV, CVC, VC. The first two are unrestricted, while the last two are restricted as to the filler of the last, C, which can be filled only by /n/ or (before /k/) /m/. Words consist of one to five syllables and have a phonemic primary stress. Contours are of two types: final and non-final. Final contours are characterized by low level pitch with a slight fall terminal or by a descending intonation. Non-final contours characterized by rise in pitch. One to six contours form a pause group. A final contour is always present in a pause group. A pause with a breath intake is also a mark of pause groups boundaries.

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