title: Kipeá language
text: # Kipeá language
  
  Kipeá (Quipea), or Kariri, was a Karirian language of Brazil. It is sometimes considered a dialect of a single Kariri language. A short grammatical treatment is available.
  
  ## Documentation
  
  Kipeá is well documented by Luiz Mamiani, a Jesuit priest who wrote a grammar and catechism of the Kipeá language during the late 1600s.
  
  ## Grammar
  
  The morphology of the Kipeá language is predominantly isolating and analytic, unusual for a language native to the Americas.
  
  ## Phonology
  
  Phonology of the Kipeá language:
  
  Consonant sounds :
  
  | | | Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Plosive | voiceless | p | t | | k | |
  | Plosive | voiced | b | d | | ɡ | |
  | Nasal | Nasal | m | n | ɲ | | |
  | Affricate | voiceless | | t͡s | t͡ʃ | | |
  | Affricate | voiced | | d͡z | d͡ʒ | | |
  | Fricative | Fricative | | s | | | h |
  | Approximant | Approximant | | | j | | |
  
  A voiced plosive [ɡ] can have an allophone of [ŋ].
  
  Vowel/Nasal sounds :
  
  | | Front | Central | Back |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | High | i | ɨ | u |
  | Mid | e ẽ | | o õ |
  | Low | | a ã | ɑ̃ |
  