Aché language
Language
| Aché | |
|---|---|
| Guayakí | |
| Native to | Paraguay |
| Region | Alto Paraná |
| Ethnicity | Aché |
Native speakers | 910 (2012)[1] |
Language family | Tupian |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | guq |
| Glottolog | ache1246 |
| ELP | Aché |
Aché, also known as Guayaki, is a Guarani language of Paraguay with three living dialects: Ache gatu, Ache wa, and Ñacunday River Ache. The Ñacunday River dialect has low mutual intelligibility with the other two dialects.[2]
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ | u ũ |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Open | a ã |
| Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | k | |||
| prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿd͡ʒ | ᵑɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | |||||
| voiced | β | v | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||||
| Flap | ɾ | ||||||
References
- ^ Aché at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ Aché language at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
External links
- Listen to a sample of Aché from Global Recordings Network
- The Language Archive
- Aché (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)
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languages
| Guaicuruan | |
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| Mascoian | |
| Matacoan | |
| Tupi–Guarani |
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| Zamucoan |
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