Language name and locationː Angaité, La Patria, Paraguay [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 安盖特语, 巴拉圭中西部阿耶斯总省帕特里亚地区

1. ɬee'maʔ 

2. ʔaka'net hɑnɛt

3. ʔaka'net ɬee'ma'ʔaʔ (2+1)

4. from four up used Paraguayan Guaraní loanwords now

Linguist providing data and dateː Miss Paige Erin Wheeler, PhD Student at Department of Linguistics, the University if Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, January 12, 2020.

提供资料的语言学家: Miss Paige Erin Wheeler, 2020 年 1 月 22 日.

Other comments: Angaité or Kovalhvok, Koyaqteves is spoken about 1,000 speakers out of 3,600 ethnic population in Presidente Hayes department: La Patria, Paraguay.

Angaité  has only kept traditional numerals from one to three, they use Spanish loanwords from four up now.These data are extremely preliminary, based on only a few weeks fieldwork on the language. My consultants told me that after 3 they use Paraguayan Guaraní for counting. I transcribed long vowels where I heard them, but I am still unsure whether vowel length is contrastive in Angaité and haven’t yet done any acoustic studies to follow up on it. Likewise, stress is marked where I heard it, but I haven’t extensively or empirically looked at the acoustic correlates of stress in Angaité. The recordings of these elicitation sessions are archived in the following collection, with the data about numerals was recorded on 20190710:

Wheeler, Paige Erin. 2019–. The Angaité Collection of Paige Erin Wheeler.  The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.

Phoneme inventory (all transcriptions in APA):

Stops: /p, t, k, ʔ/

Fricatives: /s, h/

Lateral fricative: /ɬ/

Nasals: /m, n, ŋ/

Approximants: /l, y, w/

Vowels: /e, o, a/ (perhaps /i, o, a/?)