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Jê languages
The Jê languages (also spelled Gê, Jean, Ye, Gean), or Jê–Kaingang languages, are spoken by the Jê, a group of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
The Jê family forms the core of the Macro-Jê family. Kaufman (1990) finds the proposal convincing.
According to Ethnologue, the language family is as follows:
Internal classification of the Jê languages according to Ramirez, et al. (2015):
Ramirez excludes Jaikó as a possibly spurious language.
According to Nikulin (2020), the internal branching of the Jê language family is as follows:
Jaikó is treated as a separate branch of Macro-Jê.
Some sound changes and lexical innovations that define various Jê subgroups:
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Jê languages
The Jê languages (also spelled Gê, Jean, Ye, Gean), or Jê–Kaingang languages, are spoken by the Jê, a group of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
The Jê family forms the core of the Macro-Jê family. Kaufman (1990) finds the proposal convincing.
According to Ethnologue, the language family is as follows:
Internal classification of the Jê languages according to Ramirez, et al. (2015):
Ramirez excludes Jaikó as a possibly spurious language.
According to Nikulin (2020), the internal branching of the Jê language family is as follows:
Jaikó is treated as a separate branch of Macro-Jê.
Some sound changes and lexical innovations that define various Jê subgroups: