Puelche language

Puelche
Puelche
Gününa Küne (Gennaken)
Native to	Argentina
Extinct	1934
Language family	Chonan ? Puelche–Het ? Puelche; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	pue
Glottolog	puel1244
ELP	Gününa-Küne
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Puelche is an extinct language formerly spoken by the Puelche people in the Pampas region of Argentina. The language is also known as Gününa Küne, Gennaken (Guenaken), Northern Tehuelche, Gününa Yajich, Ranquelche, and Pampa.

Classification

Puelche has long been considered a language isolate. Based on very limited evidence, Viegas Barros (1992) suggests that Puelche might be closely related to the language of the Querandí, one of the Het peoples, and Viegas Barros (2005) that it is related to the Chon languages.^[2] Further afield, inclusion in a putative Macro-Jibaro family has been posited.

Phonology

Vowels

Puelche has 7 vowels:^[3]

	Front	Back
	Unrounded	Unrounded	Rounded
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e	ɤ	o
Open-mid		ʌ
Open	a

Consonants

Puelche has 25 consonants:^[3]

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Plosive	Voiceless	p	t			k	q	ʔ
	Ejective	pʼ	tʼ			kʼ	qʼ
	Voiced	b	d			ɡ
Affricate	Voiceless		t͡s	t͡ʃ
Affricate	Ejective		t͡sʼ	t͡ʃʼ
Fricative	Central		s	ʃ		x		h
Fricative	Lateral		ɬ
Approximant			l		j	w

Puelche has an additional phoneme /r/, but its phonetic properties are badly described.^[3]

Bibliography

Casamiquela, Rodolfo M. (1983). Nociones de gramática del gününa küne. Paris: French National Centre for Scientific Research. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authorformat= ignored (help)

Adelaar, Willem (2004). The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authorformat= ignored (help)

External links

Gününa Küne language dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
WALS: Puelche

References

^ Puelche at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
^ Campbell, Lyle. (in preparation) "The classification of South American languages. In Campbell & Grondona (eds.), South America. Mouton de Gruyter.
^ ^a ^b ^c Clairis, Christos (1997). "Lingüística Fueguina 1997". Onomázein. 2: 421–450.

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[e17-1] Puelche at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)

[2] Campbell, Lyle. (in preparation) "The classification of South American languages. In Campbell & Grondona (eds.), South America. Mouton de Gruyter.

[clairis1997-3] Clairis, Christos (1997). "Lingüística Fueguina 1997". Onomázein. 2: 421–450.

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