The Mascoian also known as Enlhet–Enenlhet, Lengua–Mascoy, or Chaco languages are a small, closely related language family of
Paraguay
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Languages
The languages are:
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* Maskoy language, Maskoy (Toba-Maskoy)
*Enxet
The Enxet are an indigenous people of about 17,000 living in the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay. Originally hunter-gatherers, many are now forced to supplement their livelihood as laborers on the cattle ranches that have encroached upon ...
(Southern Lengua)
*Enlhet
Enlhet (Eenlhit), or Northern Lengua, is a language of the Paraguayan Chaco, spoken by the northern Enxet people. It is also known as ''Vowak'' and ''Powok''.
In Filadelfia
Filadelfia () is the capital of Boquerón Department in the Gran ...
(Northern Lengua)
* Kaskihá (Guaná)
*Sanapaná
The Sanapana are one of many nomadic tribes inhabiting the lower Gran Chaco of western Paraguay. With the introduction of Mennonite settlements in the central Chaco in the 1930s, many nomadic tribes semi-settled near the Mennonites. The Mennonite ...
* Angaité
Two spurious languages have been claimed in the literature, ''Emok'' and ''Maskoy Pidgin''.
Jolkesky (2016)
Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):[Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. ]
Estudo arqueo-ecolinguÃstico das terras tropicais sul-americanas
'. Ph.D. dissertation, University of BrasÃlia
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(†= extinct)
;Lengua-Maskoy
*Lengua: ''Enlhet
Enlhet (Eenlhit), or Northern Lengua, is a language of the Paraguayan Chaco, spoken by the northern Enxet people. It is also known as ''Vowak'' and ''Powok''.
In Filadelfia
Filadelfia () is the capital of Boquerón Department in the Gran ...
''; ''Enxet
The Enxet are an indigenous people of about 17,000 living in the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay. Originally hunter-gatherers, many are now forced to supplement their livelihood as laborers on the cattle ranches that have encroached upon ...
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*Maskoy
**Maskoy, Southern: '' Angaite''; '' Sanapana''
**Maskoy, Northern: '' Kaskiha''; '' Maskoy language, Maskoy''
Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.
References
*Alain Fabre, 2005, ''Los pueblos del Gran Chaco y sus lenguas, primera parte: los enlhet-enenlhet del Chaco Paraguayo.
{{South American languages
Mascoian languages,
Mataco–Guaicuru languages
Indigenous languages of the South American Chaco
Languages of Paraguay
Language families
Chaco linguistic area