Mascoian languages
{{Short description|Language family of Paraguay}}
{{Infobox language family
| name = Mascoian
| altname = Lengua-Mascoy, Toba
Enlhet–Enenlhet
| region = Paraguay
| familycolor = American
| fam1 = Mataco–Guaicuru ?
| glotto = leng1261
| glottorefname = Lengua–Mascoy
| child1 = Lengua
| child2 = Maskoy
}}
The Mascoian languages, also known as Enlhet–Enenlhet, Lengua–Mascoy, or Chaco languages, are a small, closely related language family of Paraguay.
Languages
=Jolkesky (2016)=
Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. [http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:jolkesky-2016-arqueoecolinguistica Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas]. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.
({{extinct}} = extinct)
{{tree list}}
- Lengua-Maskoy
- Lengua: Enlhet; Enxet
- Maskoy
- Maskoy, Southern: Angaite; Sanapana
- Maskoy, Northern: Kaskiha; Maskoy
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Vocabulary
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.{{cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |author-link=Čestmír Loukotka |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk |url-access=registration |publisher=UCLA Latin American Center |year=1968 |location=Los Angeles}}
| class="wikitable sortable"
! gloss !! Kaskihá !! Sanapaná !! Angaité !! Kilyetwaiwo !! Lengua !! Maskoy |
| one
| thãabok || inskipkoé || slima || slima || sláma || sláma |
|---|
| two
| hãkãnit || inkanéit || kaened || haenit || aʔánit || agaʔét |
| ear
| hea-xtik || iñ-altik || aua-tik || enet-ktek || aha-ktik || hartek |
| foot
| he-menik || i-meníek || i-menék || || minik || he-menek |
| woman
| enkeluana || kilaua || kelaa || || kilyaná || inkilána |
| water
| yemen || ilmen || islmen || || yigmin || igmen |
| fire
| tatha || taothla || tathxa || || tatsla || taslá |
| sun
| agmĩn || akmén || agmén || yenmet || ixim || ikim |
| moon
| pithtin || pielstén || pelsxtén || || piltin || pelsten |
| tobacco
| xená || inhaihak || hená || || haéna || hekena |
References
{{Reflist}}
- Alain Fabre, 2005, Los pueblos del Gran Chaco y sus lenguas, primera parte: los enlhet-enenlhet del Chaco Paraguayo.[http://www.ling.fi/Entradas%20diccionario/Dic=EnlhetEnenlhet.pdf]
{{Mataco-Guaicuru languages}}
{{Language families}}
{{South American languages}}
Category:Mataco–Guaicuru languages
Category:Indigenous languages of the South American Chaco