Mocoví language

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The Mocoví language is an indigenous Guaicuruan language of the Gran Chaco region, traditionally spoken by the Mocoví people in northern Argentina.

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instanceOf American indigenous language
Guaicuruan language
endangered language
indigenous language
associatedReligion Christianity (part of speakers) NERFINISHED
traditional Mocoví beliefs
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Kadiwéu language
Pilagá language NERFINISHED
Toba Qom language NERFINISHED
continent South America
country Argentina
dominantContactLanguage Spanish
endonymOfLanguage Moqoit NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Mocoví people NERFINISHED
glottocode moco1246
glottologName Mocovi NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Mocoví NERFINISHED
Mocoví (Guaicuruan) NERFINISHED
hasAncestor Proto-Guaicuruan language NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticResearch grammatical descriptions
lexicographic studies
phonological analyses
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
rich consonant inventory
simple vowel system
hasRevitalizationEffort bilingual education programs
community language workshops
ISO639-3 moc
languageFamily Guaicuruan languages NERFINISHED
languageStatus definitely endangered
languageStatusSource UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger NERFINISHED
macrofamily Mataco–Guaicuruan (proposed) NERFINISHED
morphologicalType polysynthetic tendencies
region northern Argentina
spokenIn Argentina NERFINISHED
Chaco Province NERFINISHED
Formosa Province NERFINISHED
Gran Chaco region NERFINISHED
Santa Fe Province NERFINISHED
subfamilyOf Southern Guaicuruan languages NERFINISHED
subjectTo language shift to Spanish
taughtIn some primary schools in Chaco Province
some primary schools in Santa Fe Province
traditionalArea Argentine Gran Chaco NERFINISHED
typology agglutinative language
usedBy Mocoví communities in rural areas
Mocoví communities in urban peripheries
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Chaco Province languageSpoken Mocoví language