Mocoví language
| Mocoví | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Argentina |
| Ethnicity | 12,000 Mocoví people (2004)[1] |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2011)[1] |
Guaicuruan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | moc |
| Glottolog | moco1246 |
| ELP | Mocoví |
The Mocoví language is a Guaicuruan language of Argentina spoken by about 3,000 people, mostly in Santa Fe province.[1]
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | plain | p | t | k | q | ʔ | |
| voiced | d | ɡ | ɢ | ||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| Affricate | plain | t͡ʃ | |||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
| Lateral | l | ʎ | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | ||
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
References
External links
- http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/INFOpages/Posters/Argentina/Argentina.pdf
- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10412b.htm
- Argentinian Languages Collection of Salvador Bucca at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, including audio recordings of stories and word lists in Mocoví.
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