Aché language
| Aché | |
|---|---|
| Guayakí | |
| Native to | Paraguay |
| Region | Alto Paraná |
| Ethnicity | Aché |
Native speakers | 910 (2012)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | guq |
| Glottolog | ache1246 |
| ELP | Aché |
Aché, also known as Guayaki, is a Guarani language of Paraguay. Aché has three living dialects: Ache gatu, Ache wa, and Ñacunday River Ache. The Ñacunday River dialect has low mutual intelligibility with the other two dialects.[1]
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Open | a ã |
| Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d | ŋɡ | ||||
| prenasalized | mb | nd | nd͡ʒ | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | |||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | |||||
| voiced | β | v | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
References
- ^ a b Aché language at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
External links
- Listen to a sample of Aché from Global Recordings Network
- The Language Archive
- Aché (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
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