Mascoi languages

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Mascoi is an indigenous language family from South America that is native to central Paraguay .

The family's most spoken language is Northern Lengua with 4,500 native speakers.

Mascoi comprises five individual languages:

Kaskihá, Guaná [gva]
Enlhet, Northern Lengua [enl]
Enxet, Lengua Ser, Lengua, Vowak, Enhlit [enx]
Sanapaná [spn]
Toba-Maskoy [tmf]

literature

Harald Haarmann : Small Lexicon of Languages. From Albanian to Zulu (= Beck series. 1432). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47558-2 .

Web links

Mascoian. In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016.