| Haush | |
|---|---|
| Manekʼenk | |
| Native to | Argentina |
| Region | Mitre Peninsula |
| Ethnicity | Haush people |
| Extinct | c. 1920 |
Chonan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | haus1240 |
 Haush | |
The Haush language (also Manekʼenk) was an indigenous language spoken by the Haush people and was formerly spoken on the island of Tierra del Fuego.1 The Haush were considered the oldest inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego; at the time of first European contact, they inhabited the far eastern tip of the Mitre Peninsula.
Before 1850, an estimated 300 people spoke Haush.2 The last speaker of Haush died around 1920 and the language is considered extinct.3
Haush is considered to be related to the Selkʼnam, Gününa Yajich, Teushen, and Tehuelche languages, which collectively belong to the Chonan language family.4
Vocabulary
Carlo Luigi Spegazzini (1899) cites the following Haush vocabulary.
Words
| Haush | English |
|---|---|
| ča(a)wataʔ | small mushroom |
| se | wife |
| maʔčaju- | young man |
| kotek | to whistle |
| k’ero | small hawk |
| t’elk’en | child |
Phrases
CER:certitive DEI1:deictic of minimum distance DEI3:deictic of maximum distance INFR:informality positional classifier DISP:displacement positional classifier
anan
canoe
k-as-pe-nk
AN-inside-be(.sitting)-CER.M
naʔ
DEI1
anan k-as-pe-nk naʔ
canoe AN-inside-be(.sitting)-CER.M DEI1
'He is in the canoe.'6
asi
INTERR
n
?
a-ma:
DISP-DEI3
čeʔne-s
come-DUB
asi n a-ma: čeʔne-s
INTERR ? DISP-DEI3 come-DUB
'Who's coming?'6
asa ma(a)
why
k-ameč’-i
AN-grab-INF
k’om-nk
AUX.NEG-CER.M
{asa ma(a)} k-ameč’-i k’om-nk
why AN-grab-INF AUX.NEG-CER.M
'Why won't you grab?'7
kar
something
k-ʔaj-Ø
AN-give-IMP
o(n)
INFR
a(a)
for
t’a-Ø
eat-INF
kar k-ʔaj-Ø o(n) a(a) t’a-Ø
something AN-give-IMP INFR for eat-INF
'Give me something to eat.'7
References
References
- Adelaar & Muysken 2004, p. 41.
- Adelaar & Muysken 2004, p. 555.
- Adelaar & Muysken 2004, p. 554.
- Adelaar & Muysken 2004, p. 556.
- Spegazzini 2019, p. 113.
- Spegazzini 2019, pp. 115.
- Spegazzini 2019, pp. 116.
Bibliography
- Adelaar, Willen F. H.; Muysken, Pieter (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7.
- Furlong, Charles Wellington (December 1915). "The Haush and Ona, Primitive Tribes of Tierra del Fuego". Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Congress of Americanists: 432–444. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- Spegazzini, Carlo Lugi (2019). "Un manuscrito de Carlos Spegazzini con datos inéditos sobre la lengua haush" [A Manuscript by Carlos Spegazzini with Unpublished Data on the Haush Language]. Indiana - Estudios Antropológicos Sobre América Latina y el Caribe (in Spanish). 36 (2): 101–128. doi:10.18441/ind.v36i2.101-128.