Abipón language

Abipón
Native to	Argentina
Ethnicity	Abipón people
Extinct	19th century[1]
Language family	Guaicuruan Southern Abipón
Language codes
ISO 639-3	axb
Glottolog	abip1241[2]
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.

The Abipón language was a native American language of the Guaicuruan group of the Guaycurú-Charruan^[1] 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.^[3]

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar/Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	ɲ
Plosive/Affricate	p	t	tʃ	k	q
Fricative				ɣ	ʁ	h
Liquid	w	ɲ, l	j	w

Vowels

	Front	Back/Central
Closed	i	h
Mid	e	o
Open	a

Bibliography

Cited in the Catholic Encyclopedia^[4]

• 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'Orbrigny (1839), L'Homme americain (Paris)
• Brinton, The American Race.
• UPSID

References

1. Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "Abingdon". Encyclopedia Britannica. I: A-ak Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Abipon". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. John Mackenzie (ed.), Peoples, Nations and Cultures.
4. Adolph Francis Bandelier (1907), Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Abipones Accessed on 2009-08-08.

External links

• Michael, Lev, Tammy Stark, and Will Chang (compilers). 2012. Phonological inventory of Abipon. In the South American Phonological Inventory Database, version 1.1.3. Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Digital Resource. Berkeley: University of California.
• Abipón basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database