Xerénte language
The Xerénte language is one of the Ge languages of Brazil. It is spoken by the Xerente people in the Tocantins region between Rio do Sono and Rio Tocantins.Phonology
| Front | Central | Back |
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ | u ũ |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | | o õ |
| Mid | | ə ə̃ | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | | ɔ |
| Open | a | | |
Grammar
The nominative and emphatic forms are free morphemes with the function of subject of transitive or intransitive sentences. The absolutive pronoun prefixes mark possessors, objects of postpositions, direct objects, subjects of nominal predicates and subjects of intransitive verbs with post-verbal operators.
