Mocoví language
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| Mocoví | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Argentina |
| Ethnicity | Mocoví (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]
In 2010, the province of Chaco in Argentina declared Mocoví as one of four provincial official languages alongside Spanish and the indigenous Qom and Wichí.[2]
Phonology[edit]
Consonants[edit]
The following are the consonants of Mocoví:[3]
| 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[edit]
Gualdieri (1998) gives the following vowels:[3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | ||
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Low | a aː |
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c Mocoví at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Ley No. 6604 de la Provincia de Chaco, 28 de julio de 2010, B.O., (9092), Link Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Gualdieri (1998), p. 27
References[edit]
- Grondona, Verónica María (1998). A grammar of Mocoví (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). University of Pittsburgh.
- Gualdieri, Cecilia B. (1998). Mocovi (Guaicuru): fonologia e morfossintaxe (Thesis). Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
External links[edit]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20041211212213/http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/INFOpages/Posters/Argentina/Argentina.pdf
- Mocoví Indians - The Catholic Encyclopedia
- 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.
- Mocoví (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)