Aché | |
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Guayakí | |
Native to | Paraguay |
Region | Alto Paraná |
Ethnicity | Aché |
Native speakers | 910 (2012)[1] |
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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