The Abipón language was a native American language of the

Guaicuruan Guaicuruan (Guaykuruan, Waikurúan, Guaycuruano, Guaikurú, Guaicuru, Guaycuruana) is a language family spoken in northern Argentina, western Paraguay, and Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul). The speakers of the languages are often collectively called ...

group of the Guaycurú- Charruan family that was at one time spoken in Argentina by the

Abipón people The Abipones ( es, Abipones, singular ) were an indigenous people of Argentina's Gran Chaco region, speakers of one of the Guaicuruan languages. They ceased to exist as an independent ethnic group in the early 19th century. A small number of sur ...

. Its last speaker is thought to have died in the 19th century. John Mackenzie (ed.), ''Peoples, Nations and Cultures''.

Phonology

Consonants

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Bibliography

Cited in the Catholic EncyclopediaAdolph Francis Bandelier (1907)
Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Abipones
Accessed on 2009-08-08. * Hervas (1785), Origine, Formazione, Mecanismo, ed Armonia degli Idiomi (Cesena) * Hervas (1787), Vocabulario poliglotto * Hervas (1787), Saggio practico delle Lingue ... *

Adrian Balbi Adriano Balbi (April 25, 1782 – March 14, 1848), Italian geographer, was born at Venice. The publication of his ''Prospetto politico-geografico dello stato attuale del globo'' (Venice, 1808) obtained his election to the chair of professor of geog ...

(1826), Atlas ethnographique du globe (Paris) * Alcide d'Orbigny (1839), L'Homme americain (Paris) *

Daniel Brinton Daniel Garrison Brinton (May 13, 1837July 31, 1899) was an American surgeon, historian, archaeologist and ethnologist. Biography Brinton was born in Thornbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Yale University in 1858 ...

, The American Race.
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References

External links

*
Abipón basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
* World Atlas of Language Structures information o
Abipón
Languages of Argentina Guaicuruan languages Extinct languages of South America Languages extinct in the 19th century Chaco linguistic area {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub hu:Abipónok