Wichí Lhamtés Nocten

Wichí Lhamtés Nocten, or Weenhayek, is a Wichí language primarily spoken in Bolivia, where an estimated 1,810 Wichí people spoke it in 1994. 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.^[2]

Wichí Lhamtés Nocten
Weenhayek
Native to	Bolivia, Argentina
Region	Tarija Department (Bolivia), Salta Province (Argentina)
Ethnicity	Wichí
Native speakers	(1,900 cited 1994)[1]
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)

Phonology

Consonants in the Nocten dialect

		Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar			Uvular	Glottal
			central	lateral		plain	labial	pal.
Plosive		p	t				kʷ	kʲ	q	ʔ
Affricate			ts
Fricative			s			x	xʷ			h
Nasal	voiced	m	n
	voiceless	m̥	n̥
Lateral	voiced			l
	fricative			ɬ
Approximant	voiced				j		w
	voiceless				j̊		w̥

• /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].^[3]

Vowels in the Nocten dialect

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a	ɑ

See also

• Wichí Lhamtés Vejoz
• Wichí Lhamtés Güisnay