| Aché | |
|---|---|
| Guayakí | |
| Native to | Paraguay |
| Region | Alto Paraná |
| Ethnicity | Aché |
Native speakers | 910 (2012)1 |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | guq |
| Glottolog | ache1246 |
| ELP | Aché |
 Aché is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Aché, also known as Guayaki, is a Guarani language of Paraguay with three living dialects: Ache gatu, Ache wa, and Ñacunday River Ache. The Ñacunday River dialect has low mutual intelligibility with the other two dialects.2
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i ĩ | ɨ ɨ̃ ⟨y⟩ ⟨ỹ⟩ |
u ũ |
| Close-mid | e ẽ | o õ | |
| Open | a ã |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ ⟨ch⟩ |
k | ʔ ⟨’⟩ |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ ⟨dj⟩ |
ɡ | ||
| prenasalized | ᵐb ⟨mb⟩ |
ⁿd ⟨nd⟩ |
ⁿd͡ʒ ⟨ndj⟩ |
ᵑɡ ⟨ng⟩ |
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| Nasal | m | n | ɲ ⟨ñ⟩ |
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| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ ⟨f⟩ |
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| voiced | β ⟨v⟩ |
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| Approximant | w | j ⟨ll⟩ |
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| Flap | ɾ ⟨r⟩ |
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References
References
- Aché at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- Aché language at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
External links
External links
- Listen to a sample of Aché from Global Recordings Network
- The Language Archive Archived 2019-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Aché (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)