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Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz is a Mataco-Guaicuru language of Argentina and Bolivia. Speakers are concentrated in northern parts of Chaco, Formosa, Salta, Jujuy Provinces, as well as west of Toba, the upper Bermejo River valley, and Pilcomayo River. The language is also called Mataco Vejoz and Vejos.

Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz
Native to	Argentina, Bolivia
Ethnicity	Wichí
Native speakers	(25,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Matacoan Wichi languages Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wlv
Glottolog	wich1263
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 Chaqueña Wichí dialect[2]

		Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
			central	lateral
Plosive	plain	p	t			kʷ	q	ʔ
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ				qʰ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ				qʼ
Affricate	plain		ts		tʃ
	aspirated		tsʰ
	ejective		tsʼ		tʃʼ
Fricative		fʷ	s	ɬ			χ	h
Nasal	voiced	m	n
	preglottal	ʼm	ʼn
	voiceless		n̥
Approximant	voiced			l	j	w
	voiceless				j̥	w̥
	preglottal			ʼl	ʼj	ʼw

Vowels in the Chaqueña Wichí dialect[2]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

• /i/ is heard as [ɪ] after palatal consonants.
• /e/ is heard as [ɛ] when preceding uvular consonants.
• /a, o/ sounds can be heard as [ɑ, ɔ] before uvular consonants.
• /u/ can be heard as [ʊ] in syllable-final position.

See also

• Wichí Lhamtés Nocten
• Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay

Notes

External links

• Thathamet: Thatathyaj Thaye Thatenek (1926) Portions of the Book of Common Prayer and Paraphrases of Well-known English Hymns in the Mataco Language as Spoken by a Tribe of Indians Living in That Part of the Gran Chaco which is under the Rule of the Argentine Republic. Digitized by Richard Mammana
• Collections in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America

На других языках

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- [en] Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz

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[ru] Вехос (язык)

Вехос («Mataco Vejoz», Vejos, Vejoz, Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz) — индейский язык, который относится к группе вичи матакской группы языков, на котором говорит народ вичи, проживающий на северных территориях провинций Сальта, Формоса, Жужуй, Чако и западной долине рек Тоба, Бермехо и на реке Пилькомайо в Аргентине.

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