Tehuelche language

Tehuelche language

language
name=Tehuelche
nativename=
states=Argentina
speakers=4
familycolor=Chon
iso2=teh|iso3=teh

Tehuelche is a nearly extinct Chon language spoken by four people in Patagonia out of an ethnic group of 200. They were originally nomadic hunters from Chile. It is also known as Aonikenk or Aonek'o 'ajen. The decline of the language started with the Araucanization of Patagonia, when many Tehuelche tribes adopted Mapudungun as main language. Later during the XIX and XX century Spanish replaced both as Argentina and Chile took possession of Patagonia.

Clasification

Tehuelche belongs to the Chon family, together with Teushen, Selk'nam and Haush.

Phonology

Vowels

Tehuelche has 3 vocalic qualities which can be short or long. (Fernandez 1988: 87-88)

Noun

Verb

References

Fernández Garay, Ana V. (1997): Testimonios de los últimos tehuelches. Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Fernández Garay, Ana V. (1998): El tehuelche. Una lengua en vías de extinción. Valdivia: Universidad Austral de Chile [Anejos de Estudios Filológicos 15] .

Fernández Garay, Ana V. (2004): Diccionario tehuelche-español / índice español-tehuelche. Leiden: University of Leiden [Indigenous Languages of Latin America 4] .

Viegas Barros, J. Pedro (2005): Voces en el viento. Raíces lingüísticas de la Patagonia. Buenos Aires: Mondragón.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=teh Tehuelche @ Ethnologue]


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