Puelche language
| Puelche | |
|---|---|
| Gennaken | |
| Gününa Küne | |
| Native to | Argentina |
| Extinct | 1934[1] with the death of Trruúlmani |
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Chonan ?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pue |
| Glottolog | puel1244[2] |
Puelche is an extinct language formerly spoken by the Puelche people in the Pampas region of Argentina. The language is also known as Gününa Küne, Gennaken (Guenaken), Northern Tehuelche, Gününa Yajich, Ranquelche, and Pampa.
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Classification
Puelche has long been considered a language isolate. Based on very limited evidence, Viegas Barros (1992) suggests that Puelche might be closely related to the language of the Querandí, one of the Het peoples, and Viegas Barros (2005) that it is related to the Chon languages.[3] Further afield, inclusion in a putative Macro-Jibaro family has been posited.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Unrounded | Rounded | |
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | ɤ | o |
| Open-mid | ʌ | ||
| Open | a | ||
Consonants
Puelche has 25 consonants:[4]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Plosive | Voiceless | p | t | k | q | ʔ | ||
| Ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | qʼ | ||||
| Voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||||
| Affricate | Voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʃ | |||||
| Ejective | t͡sʼ | t͡ʃʼ | ||||||
| Fricative | Central | s | ʃ | x | h | |||
| Lateral | ɬ | |||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||||
Puelche has an additional phoneme /r/, but its phonetic properties are badly described.[4]
Bibliography
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External links
- Gününa Küne language dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
- WALS: Puelche
References
- ↑ Puelche at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ Campbell, Lyle. (in preparation) "The classification of South American languages. In Campbell & Grondona (eds.), South America. Mouton de Gruyter.
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