The Mascoian also known as Enlhet–Enenlhet, Lengua–Mascoy, or Chaco languages are a small, closely related language family of

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Languages

The languages are:Unruh, Ernesto; Kalisch, Hannes. 2003. "Enlhet-Enenlhet. Una familia lingüística chaqueña." Thule, ''Rivista italiana di studi americanistici'' 14/15: 207–23

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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)

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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