Aché language

Aché
Aché
Guayakí
Native to	Paraguay
Region	Alto Paraná
Ethnicity	Aché
Native speakers	910 (2012)
Language family	Tupian Tupí–Guaraní Guaraní (I) Aché; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	guq
Glottolog	ache1246
ELP	Aché

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

Aché vowels^[3]
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃ ⟨y⟩ ⟨ỹ⟩	u ũ
Close-mid	e ẽ		o õ
Open	a ã

Aché consonants
		Bilabial	Labio- dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p		t	t͡ʃ ⟨ch⟩		ʔ ⟨’⟩
	voiced	b		d	d͡ʒ ⟨dj⟩	k
	prenasalized	ᵐb ⟨mb⟩		ⁿd ⟨nd⟩	ⁿd͡ʒ ⟨ndj⟩	ᵑɡ ⟨ng⟩
Nasal		m		n	ɲ ⟨ñ⟩
Fricative	voiceless	ɸ ⟨f⟩
Fricative	voiced	β ⟨v⟩	v
Approximant		w			j ⟨ll⟩
Flap				ɾ ⟨r⟩

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

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[e22-1] Aché at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)

[e22_manual_ref-2] Aché language at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)

[3] "SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-18.

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