This research characterizes the description of the phonetic and phonological aspects of the
Karajá-Xambioá language. The Karajá-Xambioá people, also known as Karajá do Norte, are a
town located on the Araguaia River with a demarcated area of 3,326,3502 there, in the
municipality of Santa Fe do Araguaia in the state of Tocantins. The indigenous reserve is
composed of four villages: Xambioá, Kurehê, Wari-Lyty and Hawa-Tymyra, with a
population estimated at 593 people, according to DSEI-TO (2016). The Karajá language,
according to Rodrigues (1986), belongs to the Macro-Jê linguistic trunk and the Karajá
linguistic family, possessing in its alphabet 28 letters, being 14 consonants and 10 vowels. As
a research methodology, the Xambioá villages were used to obtain data that compose the
corpus of the research, as well as theoretical alignment based on some authors such as
CAGLIARI (2007), SILVA CRISTÒFARO (2007), TORAL (1992), among others which
support the scientific research. As preliminary results we have descriptions of vowel
segments, consonant segments and phonemes of the Karajá-Xambioá language, as well as a
brief explanation about the phonological achievements in this language. The research has a
qualitative character and is an important contribution to the linguistic maintenance of the
people, and consequently permeates and ensures a bilingual and differentiated indigenous
school education.
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