Abipón language

Abipón

Spoken in Argentina

Ethnicity Abipón people

Extinct 1770s

Language family

Guaicuruan

Southern
- Abipón

Language codes

ISO 639-3 axb

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The Abipón language was a native American language of the Mataco–Guaycuru family that was at one time spoken in Argentina by the Abipón people. Its last speaker is thought to have died in the 19th century.^[1]

1 Phonology
- 1.1 Consonants
- 1.2 Vowels
2 Bibliography
3 References
4 External links

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar/Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	ɲ
Plosive/Affricate	p	t	tʃ	k	q
Fricative				ɣ	ʁ	h
Liquid	w	r, l	j	w

Vowels

	Front	Back/Central
Closed	i	ɨ
Mid	e	o
Open	a

Bibliography

Cited in the Catholic Encyclopedia^[2]

Hervas (1785), Origine, Formazione, Mecanismo, ed Armonia degli Idiomi (Cesena)
Hervas (1787), Vocabulario poliglotto
Hervas (1787), Saggio practico delle Lingue ...
Adrian Balbi (1826), Atlas ethnographique du globe (Paris)
Alcide d'Orbrigny (1839), L'Homme americain (Paris)
Brinton, The American Race.
UPSID

References

^ John Mackenzie (ed.), Peoples, Nations and Cultures.
^ Adolph Francis Bandelier (1907), Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Abipones Accessed on 2009-08-08.

External links

Entry for Abipón at Rosetta Project