Chamacoco (Ɨshɨr)

Chamacoco is a Zamucoan language spoken in northern Paraguay by about 2,000 people. In particular, it is spoken in the department of Alto Paraguay in the northeast of the Paraguayan Chaco. Chamacoco is spoken by people of all ages, and most of them also speak Spanish and/or Guarani.

Chamacoco is also known as Xamicoco or Xamacoco. Speakers of Chamacoco call their language Ɨshɨr, which is also spelled Ishír, Ɨshɨr, Ishiro or Yshyr.

Dialects of Chamacoco include Héiwo, which is spoken in the Fuerte Olimpo area; Ebidóso and Hório, which are spoken in the Bahía Negra region; and Tomaráho, which is spoken in the department of Alto Paraná.

Chamacoco is written with the Latin script. There are several spelling systems, including one developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Matthew Ulrich and Rosemany Ulrich of SIL in collaboration with the Chamacoco community.

Chamacoco alphabet and pronunciation

Download an Chamacoco alphabet chart (Excel)

Sample text

Desnutrisyon wɨchɨ uje shuu boshesho õr olaabo. Bosheshe õr olaabo pork õr poso pɨkaabo o õr poso ye ompe par boshesho per shish oshɨm õr. Desnutrisyon yet de uje shuu õr kako hn yet de uje shuu õr potɨta.

Source: Ye yuhu eyok aabo õr olaabo (Let's avoid malnutrition in our children). Rosemary Ulrich. 1992.

Videos in and about Chamacoco

Links

Information about Chamacoco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamacoco_language
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_chamacoco
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/ceg
https://livingdictionaries.app/ishir-chamacoco/about
http://chamacoco.swarthmore.edu/about/
http://www.native-languages.org/chamacoco.htm
https://livingtongues.org/projects/south-america/paraguay/chamacoco-yshyr/

Zamucoan languages

Ayoreo, Chamacoco

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 09.08.24. Last modified: 09.08.24

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