Suruí do Pará dialect

Not to be confused with Suruí de Rondônia language.

The Suruí do Pará dialect of the Tupian Akwáwa language of Brazil is spoken in the Araguaia region in the state Pará and in the town of São João do Araguaia. It is written in the Latin script, but literacy in Suruí do Pará is extremely low.^[1]

Suruí do Pará
Native to	Brazil
Region	Pará
Ethnicity	Suruí
Native speakers	260 (2006)[1]
Language family	Tupian Tupí–Guaraní Guaraní (IV) Akwáwa Suruí do Pará
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mdz
Glottolog	suru1261
ELP	Suruí do Pará

Suruí do Pará is regarded as a dialect of Akwáwa by linguists such as Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues. The other two dialects of Akwáwa are Parakanã and Asuriní of Tocantins.^[2]

Names

It is also known as Aikewara, Akewara, Akewere, and Suruí.^[3]

Phonology

Suruí has five vowels: /a, e, i, ɨ , o/. All vowels have nasalized forms, and Suruí has contrastive nasalisation.^[4]

Consonants

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	voiceless	p	t			k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d			g
Affricate	voiceless			t͡ʃ
	voiced			d͡ʒ
Fricative			s	ʃ
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Approximant			l		j	w
Flap			ɾ