Parkatêjê dialect
# Parkatêjê dialect

Parkatêjê, or Pará Gavião, is a Timbira variety of the Jê language family of Brazil. It is spoken by $12^{:10}$ individuals in Terra Indígena Mãe Maria (Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Pará). It is closely related to Kỳikatêjê, spoken by another Timbira group in the same reservation. Parkatêjê has been described and documented by Leopoldina Araújo and, more recently, by other researchers from the Federal University of Pará.

## Phonology

Consonants of Parkatêjê :

| | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial–velar | Glottal |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Plosive | p | t | | k | | ʔ |
| Nasal | m | n | | | | |
| Non-sibilant fricative | | | | | | h |
| Approximant | | | j | | w | |
| Tap/flap | | ɾ | | | | |

Parkatêjê (and Kỳikatêjê) differ from all other Timbira varieties in lacking a contrast between /k/ and /kʰ/. Moreover, the glottal stop /ʔ/ in Parkatêjê may not occupy the coda position of a syllable, which Ribeiro-Silva (2020) attributes to loss of Proto-Timbira *ʔ in codas in Parkatêjê.

