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The Mocoví language is a Guaicuruan language of Argentina spoken by about 3,000 people, mostly in Santa Fe, Chaco, and Formosa provinces.

Mocoví
Native to	Argentina
Ethnicity	Mocoví (2004)[1]
Native speakers	3,000 (2011)[1]
Language family	Guaicuruan Southern Mocoví
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Argentina Chaco Province
Language codes
ISO 639-3	moc
Glottolog	moco1246
ELP	Mocoví

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]

The Mataco-Guicurú language family is a group of 11 indigenous languages of the Americas spoken in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay, comprising two subfamilies with a total of approximately 100,000 speakers distributed in the Bermejo, Pilcomayo and Paraguay river basins. Other languages of the family are extinct and some others are threatened with extinction.

In the province of Santa Fe, it is used mostly by the elderly Mocoví population. Among adults, bilingualism is widespread and among young people Spanish is preferred. In the province of Chaco, the Mocoví language and culture are carefully preserved.

Writing in the Mocoví language was non-existent until the 1950s, when a group of missionaries developed a Latin alphabet writing system for the Toba language, which was later adapted to Mocoví for the translation of the Bible by Alberto Buckwater. This writing system is still based on correspondence with Spanish orthography, so it contains some of its irregularities.

Phonology

Consonants

The following are the consonants of Mocoví:[3]

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ
Plosive/ Affricate	plain	p	t	t͡ʃ	k	q	ʔ
	voiced		d	d͡ʒ	ɡ	ɢ
Fricative			s	ʃ			h
Flap			ɾ
Lateral			l	ʎ
Glide		w		j

Vowels

Gualdieri (1998) gives the following vowels:[3]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː
Mid	e eː		o oː
Low		a aː

Notes

References

External links

• 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)
• http://mocovilanguage.weebly.com/people-and-culture.html
• https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/handle/11336/13436
• http://www.scielo.edu.uy/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2079-312X2015000200002
• https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=5033346
• http://ffyl1.uncu.edu.ar/IMG/pdf/Censabella_y_Messineo_eds_2013.pdf#page=39

На других языках

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- [en] Mocoví language

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[es] Idioma mocoví

El idioma mocoví o moqoit la’qaatqa es una lengua de la familia lingüística mataco-guaicurú hablada en Argentina por el pueblo mocoví, que habita en localidades del centro y norte de la provincia de Santa Fe , en la zona oriental de la provincia del Chaco y en la parte sur de provincia de Formosa.[3]

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[fr] Mocoví (langue)

Le mocoví ou moqoit est une langue waykuruane parlée en Argentine dans le Nord des provinces de Santa Fé et de Chaco par 7 000 Mocoví.

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[ru] Мокови (язык)

Мокови (Mbocobí, Mocobí, Mocoví) — индейский язык, который принадлежит языковой семье гуайкуру. На данном языке говорит народ мокови, проживающий на севере центральной части провинции Санта-Фе и на юго-востоке провинции Чако в Аргентине.

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