Mocoví
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A language of Argentina
Alternate Names
Mbocobí, Mocobí, Mokovi
User Population
2,780 (Crevels 2012). A few elderly monolinguals. Ethnic population: 15,800 (Crevels 2012).
Location
Chaco and Santa Fe provinces.
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Language Status
6b (Threatened).
Typology
21 consonants and 8 vowels (4 short, 4 long).
Language Use
Preserved to a higher degree in Chaco Province than in Santa Fe Province; by the early 1990s already less than 50% maintained their ancestral language (Crevels 2007). Home, friends, religion. Some young people, all adults.
Language Development
Bilingual education in 5 schools. Grammar. NT: 1988.
Christian.