Aché language

Aché
	Guayakí
Native to	Paraguay
Region	Alto Paraná
Ethnicity	Aché
Native speakers	910 (2012)[1]
Language family	Tupian Tupí–Guaraní Guaraní (I) Aché; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	guq
Glottolog	ache1246
ELP	Aché[2]

Aché, also known as Guayaki, is a Guarani language of Paraguay. Aché has three living dialects: Ache gatu, Ache wa, and Ñacunday River Ache. The Ñacunday River dialect has low mutual intelligibility with the other two dialects.[1]

Phonology

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

Aché consonants
		Bilabial	Labio- dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stop	voiceless	p		t			ʔ
	voiced	b		d		^ŋɡ
	prenasalized	^mb		ⁿd	ⁿd͡ʒ
Affricate	voiceless				t͡ʃ
Affricate	voiced				d͡ʒ
Fricative	voiceless	ɸ
Fricative	voiced	β	v
Nasal		m		n	ɲ
Approximant		w			j
Flap				ɾ

References

Aché language at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
Endangered Languages Project data for Aché.
"SAPhon – South American Phonological Inventories". linguistics.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-18.

External links

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

[ELP1-2] Endangered Languages Project data for Aché.

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