Malalí
Native toBrazil
RegionMinas Gerais
Ethnicity30 Malalí (1862)[1]
Extinctlate 19th century
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmala1432

Malalí is an extinct Maxakalian language of Brazil, formerly spoken in the state of Minas Gerais. Little is known of Malalí other than a few wordlists recorded in the 19th century by European explorers; however, they reveal that Malalí was the most divergent member of the Maxakalían subgroup of the Macro-Jê languages.

Geographical distribution

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Malalí was historically spoken in an area between the Jequitinhonha River, Araçuaí River, and Suaçuí Grande River near Minas Novas, Minas Gerais.[2]

Documentation

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Two wordlists of Malalí were recorded in the early 19th century by Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1826) and Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1830). These form the only contemporary documentation of the language. Both wordlists are of extremely limited quality, however.[3]

Classification

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Malalí has been shown to be the most divergent member of the Maxakalían language family. It is conservative compared to other members of the family, displaying certain phonological traits and sharing lexical retentions with Krenák, which have been lost in the other languages. Maxakalian, along with Krenák and possibly Kamakã, form the Trans–São Francisco branch of the Macro-Jê language family.[3]

Historically, the classification of Malalí was disputed, with scholars such as Rivet[4] and Loukotka[5] correctly placing Malalí in the Maxakalían family, while others, such as Curt Nimuendajú, treated it as a distinct language family instead.[6]

Phonology

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Reconstructed Malali phonemes are as follows.[3]

Consonants

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The European explorers described Malali as a language with many guttural and nasal sounds.[3]

Malalí consonants
Labial Dental/Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Voiceless
obstruent
p t s [s~ʃ] k
Nasal m n ŋ
Approximant w j h

[ɲ] occurs as an allophone of /j/ before nasal vowel nuclei. All consonants except /ŋ/ may occur in the onset of a syllable, although this may be simply due to a lack of attestation in the corpus. /m, j, t, k, ŋ/ are attested in the coda position.[3]

Vowels

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Front Central Back
plain nasal plain nasal plain nasal
Non-low i [i ~ ɪ ~ e] [ẽ ~ ĩ] ə ə̃ o õ
Low ɛ a ã ɒ ɒ̃

Vocabulary

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Malalí vocabulary[7]
Gloss Malalí
God tupán
church tupánhué
fire coiá
water cheché
shirt camisán
axe
father manaiamcá
mother itá

References

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  1. ^ "HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS". etnolinguistica.wdfiles.com.
  2. ^ Ramirez, H., Vegini, V., & França, M. C. V. de. (2015). Koropó, puri, kamakã e outras línguas do Leste Brasileiro. LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 15(2), 223 - 277. doi:10.20396/liames.v15i2.8642302
  3. ^ a b c d e da Silva, Mario André Coelho; Nikulin, Andrey. "Uma aproximação à fonologia e morfologia do Malalí". Cadernos de Etnolingüística. ISSN 1946-7095. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  4. ^ Meillet, Antoine; Cohen, Marcel (1924). Les langues du monde : par un groupe de linguistes. Librairie ancienne Édouard Champion.
  5. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1931). "La familia lingüística Masakali". Revista del Instituto de Etnología de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. 2: 21–47.
  6. ^ Métraux, Alfred; Nimuendajú, Curt (1946), "The Mashacalí, Patashó, and Malalí Linguistic Families", The Marginal Tribes, Handbook of South American Indians, vol. 1, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 541–545, retrieved 2026-02-23
  7. ^ Saint-Hilaire, Auguste de (1830). Voyage dans les provinces de Rio de Janeiro et de Minas Geraes (in French). Grimbert et Dorez. p. 428.

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