• (2005) in Ethnologue divides Wichí into three separate languages and Chorote into two languages. Matacoan Wichí-Chorote Wichí (also known as Mataco, Wichi,...
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    Chiquitano uʔu- ‘honey’, p-Matacoan *-ʔi ‘name’: p-Tupian *j-et, p-Tupian *-jet, p-Bororo *idʒe, Kariri *dze, p-Matacoan *-ej, p-Zamocoan *i, (?) Chiquitano...
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  • Wichí languages are an indigenous language family spoken by the Wichí in northwestern Argentina and far-southeastern Bolivia, part of the Matacoan family...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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    into six language families: Matacoan languages or Mataco-maká (Wichí languages, Chorote languages, Nivaclé languages and the Maká language) Guaicuruan...
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  • southeast of Craig, Moffat County, Colorado Nivaclé language (ISO 639-3 code: cag), a Matacoan language spoken in Paraguay and in Argentina by the Nivaclé...
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  • Argentina, and also in Paraguay and far-southeastern Bolivia. The languages are part of the Matacoan family, and are most closely related to Wichí. They are also...
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  • Iyoʼwujwa Chorote is a Matacoan language spoken by about 2,000 people, mostly in Argentina where it is spoken by about 1,500 people; 50% of whom are monolingual...
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  • Mataco (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
    matacus, known in Portuguese as mataco, a species of armadillo Matacoan languages, a language family of South America Matacos Department, in Argentina This...
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    with Guaicuruan, Matacoan, and Mascoyan within his Macro-Mapuche stock. Both proposals appear to be obsolete. The Charruan languages are poorly attested...
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  • Maká is a Matacoan language spoken in Argentina and Paraguay by the Maká people. Its 1,500 speakers live primarily in Presidente Hayes Department near...
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  • hypothetical Waikuru-Charrúa stock. Morris Swadesh includes Guaicuruan along with Matacoan, Charruan, and Mascoian within his Macro-Mapuche stock. Both proposals...
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    proposed language family consisting of the Mataguayan and Guaicuruan languages. Pedro Viegas Barros claims to have demonstrated it. These languages are spoken...
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  • Bermejo River valley, and Pilcomayo River. The language is also called Mataco Vejoz and Vejos. The Wichí languages are predominantly suffixing and polysynthetic;...
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  • Eklenhui (Iyojwaʼja Chorote) is a language spoken in northeast Salta in Argentina by about 800 people. It is also known as Choroti, Yofuaha, and Eklenjuy...
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  • the northwest. Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. Memory of Peoples (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2...
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  • Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nivaclé people. Nivaclé is a Matacoan language spoken in Paraguay and in Argentina by the Nivaclé. It is also known...
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    Wichí (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    (2021) Wichi are the most widely spoken languages of the Matacoan language family, and include three languages: Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay...
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  • Lhamtés. A grammar book has been written for the language. The Wichí languages are predominantly suffixing and polysynthetic; verbal words have between...
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    The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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  • Wichí language primarily spoken in Bolivia, where an estimated 1,810 Wichí people spoke it in 1994. An additional one hundred people spoke the language in...
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    Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...
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  • and Grondona (2012) list the following languages as part of the Chaco linguistic area. Mataco–Guaicuru Matacoan Guaicuruan Mascoyan Zamucoan Lule–Vilelan...
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    About 600 indigenous languages are known from South America, Central America, and the Antilles (see List of indigenous languages of South America), although...
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  • Dené–Yeniseian languages are a recent proposal which has been generally well received, whereas reconstructions of the Proto-World language are often viewed...
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  • lists the indigenous languages of South America. Extinct languages are marked by dagger signs (†). Demographics of Indigenous languages of South America by...
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  • Guaicuruan Pilagá – Argentina Toba – Argentina / Paraguay Mocoví – Argentina Matacoan Chorote – Argentina Maká – Paraguay Nivaclé – Paraguay Wichi – Argentina...
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  • Glottolog (category Language families)
    of the world's languages. In addition to listing linguistic materials (grammars, articles, dictionaries) describing individual languages, the database...
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  • eastern Amazonian rainforest, Brazil Mascoian peoples Enxet: Paraguay Matacoan peoples Wichí: the Chaco, Argentina/Bolivia Zamucoan peoples Ayoreo: the...
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