Abipón language
{{Short description|Extinct language of Argentina}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Abipón
|nativename=
|states=Argentina
|ethnicity= Abipón people
|extinct=19th century
|familycolor=American
|fam1=Guaicuruan
|fam2=Southern
|iso3=axb
|glotto=abip1241
|glottorefname=Abipon
|notice=IPA
|map=Patagonian lang.png
|mapcaption=Map with approximate distributions of languages in Patagonia at the time of the Spanish conquest. Source: W. Adelaar (2004): The Andean Languages, Cambridge University Press.
}}
Abipón was a native American language of the Guaicuruan group of the Guaycurú-Charruan family that was at one time spoken in Argentina by the Abipón people. Its last speaker is thought to have died in the 19th century.John Mackenzie (ed.), Peoples, Nations and Cultures. The language is also known as Abipone, Callaga and Apibon.{{cite web|title= Abipon|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 August 2016|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=4 November 2024|url=http://multitree.org/codes/axb.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808200116/http://multitree.org/codes/axb.html}}
Phonology
=Consonants=
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! ! Labial ! Palatal ! Velar ! Uvular ! Glottal |
Nasal
| {{IPAlink|m}} | {{IPAlink|n̪}} | {{IPAlink|ɲ}} | | | |
---|
Plosive/Affricate
| {{IPAlink|p}} | {{IPAlink|t̪}} | {{IPAlink|tʃ}} | {{IPAlink|k}} | {{IPAlink|q}} | |
Fricative
| | | | {{IPAlink|ɣ}} | {{IPAlink|ʁ}} | {{IPAlink|h}} |
Liquid
| {{IPAlink|w}} | {{IPAlink|r}}, {{IPAlink|l}} | {{IPAlink|j}} | {{IPAlink|w}} | | |
= Vowels =
Bibliography
Cited in the Catholic EncyclopediaAdolph Francis Bandelier (1907), [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01044b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Abipones] Accessed on 2009-08-08.
- Hervas (1785), Origine, Formazione, Mecanismo, ed Armonia degli Idiomi (Cesena)
- Hervas (1787), Vocabulario poliglotto
- Hervas (1787), Saggio practico delle Lingue ...
- Adrian Balbi (1826), Atlas ethnographique du globe (Paris)
- Alcide d'Orbigny (1839), L'Homme americain (Paris)
- Daniel Brinton, The American Race.
- [http://web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de/L/L6815.html UPSID]
References
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External links
- {{SAPhon|Abipon|Abipon}}
- [http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100\mgu\gua&first=0 Abipón basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database]
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on [http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_abi Abipón]
{{Languages of Argentina}}
{{Mataco-Guaicuru languages}}
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Category:Languages of Argentina
Category:Extinct languages of South America
Category:Languages extinct in the 19th century
Category:Chaco linguistic area
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