| Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Argentina, Bolivia |
| Native speakers | 25,000 (date missing) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wlv |
Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz is a Mataco-Guaicuru, Wichí language spoken by 25,000 people in Argentina. Speakers are located in the northern states of Formosa, Salta, Jujuy and Chaco.
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).