Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz is a Mataco-Guaicuru language of Argentina and Bolivia. Speakers are concentrated in northern parts of Chaco, Formosa,

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s, as well as west of Toba, the upper

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valley, and

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. The language is also called ''Mataco Vejoz'' and ''Vejos''. The Wichí languages are predominantly suffixing and

polysynthetic In linguistic typology, polysynthetic languages, formerly holophrastic languages, are highly synthetic languages, i.e. languages in which words are composed of many morphemes (word parts that have independent meaning but may or may not be able t ...

; verbal words have between 2 and 15 morphemes. Alienable and inalienable possession is distinguished. The phonological inventory is large, with simple,

glottalized Glottalization is the complete or partial closure of the glottis during the articulation of another sound. Glottalization of vowels and other sonorants is most often realized as creaky voice (partial closure). Glottalization of obstruent consona ...

and aspirated

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s and sonorants. The number of

vowel A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (leng ...

s varies with the language (five or six).

Phonology

* // is heard as after palatal consonants. * // is heard as when preceding uvular consonants. * /, / sounds can be heard as before uvular consonants. * // can be heard as in syllable-final position.

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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
Matacoan languages Languages of Bolivia Languages of Argentina {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub

Phonology

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