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Karajá

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3: kpj

Population	3,600 (1999 ISA). 919 Javaé (2000 ISA).
Region	Goiás, Pará, Mato Grosso, Araguaia River, Bananal Island, and Tocantins.
Language map	Brazil, reference number 98
Alternate names	Chamboa, Xambioá, Ynã
Dialects	Javaé (Javahe). Men and women speak different dialects.
Classification	Macro-Ge, Karaja
Language development	Literacy rate in L2: 70%. Grammar. NT: 1983.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Agriculturalists; hunters.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ALFORD, Margaret Ruth, author. 1987. "Developing facilitative reading programmes in Third World countries: a culturally relevant programme for teaching reading in the mother tongue: the Karajá Indians of Brazil."

ALFORD, Margaret Ruth, author. 1989. "Um programa de ensino bilingüe culturalmente relevante para o Karajá."

FORTUNE, David L., author. 1973. "Gramática karajá: Um estudo preliminar em forma transformacional."  

FORTUNE, David L., author. 1987. "A concordância gramatical na língua Karajá."

FORTUNE, David L., author. 1988. "The category of person and associated semantico-grammar of the Karaja pronominal system."

FORTUNE, David L., author. 1990. "La categoría persona y asociado semántico-gramático en el sistema pronominal karajá."

FORTUNE, David L.; FORTUNE, Gretchen, authors. 1975. "Karajá men’s-women’s speech differences with social correlates."

FORTUNE, David L.; FORTUNE, Gretchen, authors. 1987. "Karajá literacy acquisition and sociocultural effects on a rapidly changing culture."

FORTUNE, Gretchen, author. 1988. "Indigenous literatures: Oral and written literature and the influence of language borrowing in relation to male and female speech differences."

FORTUNE, Gretchen, author. 1990. "The importance of turtle months in the Karajá world, with a focus on ethnobiology in indigenous literary education."