Toba Qom language

Toba
Native to	Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia
Ethnicity	Toba people
Native speakers	40,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Guaicuruan Southern Toba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tob
Glottolog	toba1269[2]

Toba Qom is a Guaicuruan language spoken in South America by the Toba people. The language is known by a variety of names including Toba, Qom or Kom, Chaco Sur, and Toba Sur. In Argentina it is most widely dispersed in the eastern regions of the provinces of Formosa and Chaco where the majority of the approximately 19,810 (2000 WCD) speakers reside. The language is distinct from Toba-Pilagá and Paraguayan Toba-Maskoy. There are also 146 Toba speakers in Bolivia where it is known as Qom and in Paraguay where it is also known as Qob or Toba-Qom.

In 2010, the province of Chaco in Argentina declared Qom as one of four provincial official languages alongside Spanish and the indigenous Moqoit and Wichí.^[3]

References

1. Toba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Toba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Ley No. 6604 de la Provincia de Chaco, 28 de julio de 2010, B.O., (9092), Link

External links

• Toba language dictionary online from IDS (select simple or advanced browsing)
• Argentinian Languages Collection of Salvador Bucca at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, including audio recordings of stories, songs, sermons, and conversations in Toba.