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Toba

Toba is a Guaicuruan language spoken in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, by about 40 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Toba Qom is a Guaicuruan language spoken in South America by the Toba people. The language is known by a variety of names including Toba, Qom or Kom, Chaco Sur, Qom la'aqtaqa by its speakers, and Toba Sur. In Argentina, it is most widely dispersed in the eastern regions of the provinces of Formosa and Chaco, where the majority of the approximately 19,810 (2000 WCD) speakers reside. The language is distinct from Toba-Pilagá and Paraguayan Toba-Maskoy. There are also 146 Toba speakers in Bolivia where it is known as Qom and in Paraguay where it is also known as Qob or Toba-Qom.

In 2010, the province of Chaco in Argentina declared Qom as one of four provincial official languages alongside Spanish and the indigenous Moqoit and Wichí.

From Wikipedia · Toba Qom language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Written down

'Enauac na naaxat shiỹaxauapi na mayipi huesochiguii qataq 'eeta'a't da l'amaqchic qataq da 'enec qataq ỹataqta ỹaỹate'n naua lataxaco qataq nua no'o'n nvilỹaxaco, qaq ỹoqo'oyi iuen da i 'oonolec ỹataqta itauan ichoxoden ca lỹa

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Toba

MeaningWordRomanization
personkaSiaXau*
namel7enaXat*
eyea5il7aite*
earanaltela*
nosenalmik*
tootha5ilue*
tonguelaCaXat*
handnaluaq*
bloodnaualtagoq*
bonenalpi7inek*
skinnal7ok*
kneenallyikte*
breastanaltogwe*
liver5ilamek*
wateretaǥat
firenanodek*
suna5inala7*
stara5iuaqa5i*
stonenakoma7*
mountainanaqasoXonaXa*
treeadaipaq*
leafanalaue*
nightnape*
dog5ipioq*
fishnaniaq*
louselalaXat*
oneonolek*
twodosolqa*
Iaim*
youam*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary

Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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