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Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay or Wiznay is a Wichí language. Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay had an estimated 15,000 speakers in 1999 in Argentina. The language is centered in the Pilcomayo River region. Other names for the language include Güisnay, Mataco, Mataco Güisnay, Mataco Pilcomayo, and Wichí Lhamtés. A grammar book has been written for the language.[2]

Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay
Wiznay
Native to	Argentina
Ethnicity	Wichí
Native speakers	15,000 (1999)[1]
Language family	Matacoan Wichi language Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mzh
Glottolog	wich1264
ELP	Wichí (shared)

The Wichí languages are predominantly suffixing and polysynthetic; verbal words have between 2 and 15 morphemes. Alienable and inalienable possession is distinguished. The phonological inventory is large, with simple, glottalized and aspirated stops and sonorants. The number of vowels varies with the language (five or six).

Phonology

Consonants in the Misión La Paz Wichí dialect[3]

		Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar			Glottal
			central	lateral		plain	labial	pal.	plain	labial
Plosive	plain	p	t			k	kʷ	kʲ	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ			kʼ		kʲʼ
Affricate	plain		ts
	ejective		tsʼ
Fricative			s						h	hʷ
Nasal		m	n
Lateral	voiced			l
	voiceless			l̥
Approximant					j		w

• Aspirated sounds [pʰ, tʰ, kʰ~qʰ] only occur as allophones of /p, t, k/.
• /k, kʷ, kʼ/ can also have allophones of [q, qʷ, qʼ].
• /m, n/ can have allophones [m̥, n̥, n̥ʲ] word-medially, when occurring after /h/. [n̥ʲ] occurs when /i/ is preceding the sequence /nh/.
• /h/ can also be heard as [x] word-medially and word-finally.

Vowels in the Misión La Paz Wichí dialect[3]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a	(ɑ)

• /a/ can have an allophone of [ɑ].

See also

• Wichí Lhamtés Nocten
• Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz

Notes

На других языках

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- [en] Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay

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[ru] Гуифней

Гуифней (Güisnay, «Mataco», «Mataco Güisnay», «Mataco Pilcomayo», Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay) — индейский язык, который относится к группе вичи матакской семьи языков, на котором говорит народ вичи, проживающий на правом берегу реки Пилькомайо, около аргентинско-боливийской границы, на севере Аргентины.

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