Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay

Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay
Wiznay
Spoken in Argentina
Native speakers 15,000 [1]  (date missing)
Language family
Matacoan
  • Wichi
    • Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mzh

Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay or Wiznay is a Wichí language spoken by 15,000 (1999) Wichi people in Argentina.

The Wichí languages are predominantly suffixing and polysynthetic; verbal words have between 2 and 15 morphemes. Alienable and inalienable possession is distinguished. The phonological inventory is large, with simple, glottalized and aspirated stops and sonorants. The number of vowels varies with the language (five or six).

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