Wichí Lhamtés Nocten

An additional one hundred people spoke the language in Argentina in 1994. In Bolivia, the language is spoken in the north-central Tarija Department, southwest of Pilcomayo River, and in Cordillera de Pirapo. In Argentina, it is spoken in from the northern border south to Tartagal, Salta. The language is also called Mataco, Bolivian, Mataco Nocten, Nocten, Noctenes, Oktenai, and Weenhayek; the last name is used in the Bolivian constitution of 2009.

Wichí Lhamtés Nocten
Weenhayek
Native to	Bolivia, Argentina
Region	Tarija Department (Bolivia), Salta Province (Argentina)
Ethnicity	Wichí
Native speakers	(1,900 cited 1994)
Language family	Matacoan Wichi languages Wichí Lhamtés Nocten
Official status
Official language in	Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mtp
Glottolog	wich1262
ELP	Wichí (shared)

• /kʲ/ may be heard as an affricate sound [tʃ] in some dialects.
• Sounds /p, t, kʲ, kʷ, q, ts/ may also be heard as aspirated [pʰ, tʰ, kʲʰ, kʷʰ, qʰ, tsʰ] when preceding /h/, or as glottalized [pʼ, tʼ, kʲʼ, kʷʼ, qʼ, tsʼ] when preceding /ʔ/.
• Sounds /m, n, l, j, w/ within the position of /ʔ/ are also glottalized as [ʼm, ʼn, ʼl, ʼj, ʼw].

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