Mocoví language

The Mocoví language is a Guaicuruan language of Argentina spoken by about 3,000 people, mostly in Santa Fe province.[1]

Mocoví
Native to	Argentina
Ethnicity	Mocoví (2004)[1]
Native speakers	3,000 (2011)[1]
Language family	Guaicuruan Southern Mocoví
Language codes
ISO 639-3	moc
Glottolog	moco1246[2]

Phonology

Consonants

The following are the consonants of Mocoví:[3]

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stop	plain	p	t		k	q	ʔ
	voiced		d		ɡ	ɢ
Fricative			s	ʃ			h
Affricate	plain			t͡ʃ
	voiced			d͡ʒ
Nasal		m	n	ɲ
Flap			ɾ
Lateral			l	ʎ
Approximant		w		j

Vowels

Gualdieri (1998) gives the following vowels:[3]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː
Mid	e eː		o oː
Low		a aː

Notes

1. Mocoví at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mocovi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Gualdieri (1998), p. 27

References

• Grondona, Verónica María (1998). A grammar of Mocoví (PDF) (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). University of Pittsburgh.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Gualdieri, Cecilia B. (1998). Mocovi (Guaicuru): fonologia e morfossintaxe (Thesis). Universidade Estadual de Campinas.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20041211212213/http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/INFOpages/Posters/Argentina/Argentina.pdf
• Mocoví Indians - The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Argentinian Languages Collection of Salvador Bucca at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, including audio recordings of stories and word lists in Mocoví.
• Mocoví (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)