Mataco-Guaicurú languages
The Mataco-Guaicurú languages are one of the indigenous languages of South America . They are native to Bolivia , Paraguay , northern Argentina (in the Gran Chaco region) and Brazil (southern border area). The family's most spoken language is Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz with around 25,000 native speakers. They form a language family with twelve individual languages:
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Mataco:
- Nivaclé [cag] ( Paraguay and Argentina ; approx. 18,200 speakers)
- Chorote, Iyo'wujwa [crq] (Argentina and Bolivia ; approx. 2,000 speakers)
- Chorote, Iyojwa'ja [crt] (Argentina; approx. 800 speakers)
- Maca [mca] (Paraguay; approx. 1,500 speakers)
- Wichí Lhamtés Nocten [mtp] (Bolivia and Argentina; approx. 1,900 speakers)
- Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay [mzh] (Argentina; approx. 15,000 speakers)
- Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz [wlv] (Argentina; approx. 25,000 speakers)
- Guaicurú:
See also
swell
- Harald Haarmann : Small Lexicon of Languages. From Albanian to Zulu (= Beck series. 1432). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47558-2 .
literature
- Glyn Griffiths, Cynthia Griffiths: Aspectos da língua kadiwéu (= Série lingüística. Vol. 6). Summer Institute of Linguistics, Brasilia 1976.
- Filomena Sandalo: A grammar of Kadiwéu (= MIT Occasional Papers in Linguistics. 11, ZDB -ID 2249864-3 ). With special reference to the polysynthesis parameter. MIT - Department of Linguistics, Cambridge MA 1997, (partial print by: Maria Filomena Sandalo: A grammar of Kadiwéu. Phil. Doctoral Thesis, University of Pittsburgh PA, 1995).
Web links
- Mataco guaicuru. 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.
- Lenguas del Mundo: Familia Matako-Waikuru
- Lenguas del Mundo: Familia Guaycuruana