Kujubim (Kuyubí, Cojubím) is a recently extinct dialect of Moré, a Chapacuran language, formerly spoken around the city of Guajará-Mirim in Rondônia, Brazil. The endonym, Kaw To Yo (or Kaw Tayó, which means 'eaters of payara fish'), may be the source of the river and synonym for this language, Cautario. Sources which list one do not list the other, so these may be the same language.Fabre (2005)
In addition, there is a closely related variety called Cumana (Kumaná), a possibly extinct variety of Kuyubí. Kumaná was documented in a wordlist by Emil Heinrich Snethlage in the 1930s. Various names ascribed to the language in Campbell (2012) are Torá, Toraz (distinguish Torá language), and Cautario, the last perhaps after the local river, and Abitana-Kumaná (distinguish Abitana dialect).
Phonology Kuyubí has 34 phonemes, 29 consonants and 5 vowels.
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Vowels FrontCentralBackHighiuMidɛɔLowa
Vocabulary Conjubim vocabulary from Sampaio & da Silva (2011):
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! gloss !! Conjubim |- | ‘I (1sg)’ || pa |- | ‘thou (2sg)’ || ma |- | ‘we (1pl)’ || ti |- | ‘many’ || napa |- | ‘one’ || tan |- | ‘two’ || wakoran |- | ‘big’ || pu |- | ‘small’ || pe |- | ‘woman’ || tana'man |- | ‘man (adult male human)’ || namankon |- | ‘child’ || rato |- | ‘person (individual human)’ || piten |- | ‘bird’ || pune |- | ‘dog’ || kinam |- | ‘louse (lice)’ || piw |- | ‘tree’ || pana |- | ‘seed (n)’ || tukayn |- | ‘leaf (botanics)’ || tan |- | ‘root (botanics)’ || toka ijn pana |- | ‘meat/flesh’ || nawa zip |- | ‘blood (n)’ || wik |- | ‘bone’ || pat |- | ‘egg’ || pariz |- | ‘fat (organic substance)’ || mapum |- | ‘horn’ || tataw |- | ‘tail’ || kipun |- | ‘hair (of head)’ || tunam upek |- | ‘head (anatomic)’ || pupek |- | ‘ear’ || tenetet |- | ‘eye’ || tok |- | ‘nose’ || pul |- | ‘tooth (general)’ || jat |- | ‘tongue (anatomical)’ || kapajak |- | ‘fingernail’ || tupi |- | ‘foot (not leg)’ || tinak |- | ‘knee’ || toko zimtinak |- | ‘hand (not arm)’ || pepeje tipan |- | ‘belly (abdomen, stomach)’ || takawta |- | ‘heart (organ)’ || tuku rutim |- | ‘liver’ || tawan |- | ‘drink (v)’ || tok |- | ‘eat’ || kaw |- | ‘bite (v)’ || kiw |- | ‘ash(es)’ || pop |- | ‘burn (tr. v)’ || pop |- | ‘see (v)’ || kirik |- | ‘hear (v)’ || rapat |- | ‘sleep (v)’ || pupiyn |- | ‘die (v)’ || pinĩ |- | ‘kill (v)’ || puru |- | ‘swim (v)’ || mara kujan |- | ‘fly (v)’ || ze |- | ‘walk (v)’ || wana |- | ‘lie (recline) (v)’ || titim |- | ‘sit (v)’ || pe |- | ‘stand (v)’ || pak |- | ‘give (v)’ || ni |- | ‘sun’ || mapitõ |- | ‘moon’ || panawo |- | ‘star’ || pipojõ |- | ‘water (n)’ || kom |- | ‘rain (n)’ || pipan narikom |- | ‘sand’ || tinak |- | ‘earth (soil, ground)’ || tinak |- | ‘tobacco’ || ju'e |- | ‘fire’ || pite |- | ‘red (colour)’ || siwí |- | ‘white (colour)’ || towa |- | ‘night’ || pisim |- | ‘warm’ || nok |- | ‘cold’ || tiw |- | ‘full’ || pẽpe |- | ‘good’ || nami |- | ‘round’ || pu
A word list with 793 lexical items is also available from Rodrigues Duran (2000).Rodrigues Duran, Iris. 2000. Descrição fonológica e lexical do dialeto "Kaw Tayo" (Kujubi) da língua Moré. M.A. thesis, Universidade Federal de Rondônia (Guajará-Mirim). (PDF)
References
Bibliography Duran, Iris Rodrigues. 2000. Descrição fonológica e lexical do dialeto Kaw Tayo (Kujubi) da língua Moré. MA thesis, Guajará-Mirim: Universidade Federal de Rondônia; 136pp. Angenot, Geralda de Lima V. 1997. vDocumentação da língua Kuyubi: Arquivos acústicos. Guajará-Mirim: UNIR Working Papers in Amerindian Linguistics. Série 'Documentos de Trabalho'. Angenot, Geralda de Lima V. and Angenot, Geralda de Lima V. 1997. Léxico Português-Kuyubi e Kuyubi-Português. Guajará-Mirim: UNIR Working Papers in Amerindian Linguistics.
External links Portal Japiim (online dictionary)