Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz
| Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in |  Argentina,  Bolivia |
| Ethnicity | Wichí people |
| Native speakers | 25,000 (date missing) |
| Language family |
Matacoan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wlv |
Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz is a Mataco-Guaicuru language.
Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz has 25,000 speakers in Argentina and some speakers in Bolivia. They are concentrated in northern parts of Chaco, Formosa, Salta, Jujuy Provinces, as well as west of Toba, the upper Bermejo River valley, and Pilcomayo River. The language is also called Mataco Vejoz and Vejos. The Bible was translated into Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz in 2002. The language is written in the Latin script.[1]
The Wichí languages are predominantly suffixing and polysynthetic; verbal words have between 2 and 15 morphemes. Alienable and inalienable possession is distinguished. The phonological inventory is large, with simple, glottalized and aspirated stops and sonorants. The number of vowels varies with the language (five or six).
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- ^ "Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz." Ethnologue. Retrieved 30 Jan 2012.
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