Tehuelche language

Tehuelche (Aoniken, Inaquen, Gunua-Kena, Gununa-Kena) is one of the Chonan Tehuelche languages of . Its speakers were nomadic hunters who occupied territory in present-day , north of and south of the people. It is Patagón also known as Aonikenk or Aonek'o 'ajen. Native to Ethnicity The decline of the language started with the Araucanization of Patagonia, when Extinct Last speaker died in the many Tehuelche peoples adopted the as their main language. 1960s or 1970s[1] While being quite separate from each other, the Tehuelche were considerably Language Chonan influenced by these two other languages and cultures. This allowed the transference family of morpho-syntactical elements into Tehuelche.[1] During the 19th and 20th Chon proper centuries, Spanish became the dominant language as Argentina and Chile gained Continental Chon independence, and Spanish-speaking settlers took possession of Patagonia. codes

ISO 639-3 teh [2] Contents tehu1242

Classification Phonology Consonants Morphology Pronoun Noun Verb References

Classification

Tehuelche belongs to the Chonan family together with , Ona (Selk'nam) and Haush. The latter two languages were spoken by tribes in northeast and far northeast Tierra del Fuego. They are extinct. Map with approximate distributions Phonology of languages in Patagonia at the time of the Spanish conquest. Source: W. Adelaar (2004): The Vowels Andean Languages, Cambridge University Press. Tehuelche has 3 vocalic qualities which can be short or long. (Fernandez 1988: 87- 88)

Front Central Back Mid e eː o oː Open a aː Consonants Tehuelche has 25 consonantal phonemes. Stops can be plain, glottalized or voiced. (Fernández 1998: 88-89)

Labial Dental Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal Nasal m n

plain p t tʃ k q ʔ

Stop ejective p' t' tʃ' k' q'

voiced b d ɡ ɢ s ʃ x χ w l j Trill r

Morphology

Pronoun

Singular Dual Plural 1 person ja: okwa: ošwa: 2 person ma: mkma: mšma: 3 person ta: tkta: tšta:

Noun

Verb

References

1. Tehuelche (https://www.ethnologue.com/19/language/teh/) at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016) 2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017)."T ehuelche" (http://glottolog.org/resource/la nguoid/id/tehu1242). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Fernández Garay, Ana V. (1997): Testimonios de los últimos tehuelches. : Universidad de Buenos Aires.(Spanish) Fernández Garay, Ana V. (1998): El tehuelche. Una lengua en vías de extinción. Valdivia: Universidad Austral de Chile [Anejos de Estudios Filológicos 15]. (Spanish) Fernández Garay, Ana V. (2004): Diccionario tehuelche-español / índice español-tehuelche. Leiden: University of Leiden [Indigenous Languages of Latin America 4].(Spanish) Viegas Barros, J. Pedro (2005):V oces en el viento. Raíces lingüísticas de laPatagonia. Buenos Aires: Mondragón. (Spanish) Ana Fernandez Garay, La nominalizacion de lenguas indigenas de la Patagonia, Puebla, México,2006 (Spanish)

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