- Lule language
Lule (also Tonocoté, Tonokoté) is a
language isolate of northernArgentina .Lule may be extinct today. Campbell (1997) writes that in 1981 there was an unconfirmed report that Lule is still spoken by 5 families in Resistencia in east-central
Chaco Province .Genetic relations
Lule may be related to the
Vilela language (still spoken), together forming a small Lule-Vilela family. Kaufman (1990) finds this relationship likely and with general agreement among the major classifiers of South American languages.There were two distinct groups who both were known as Lulé. [CathEncy|wstitle=Lulé Indians]
External links
* Proel: [http://www.proel.org/mundo/lule.htm Lengua Lule]
* Proel: [http://www.proel.org/mundo/lule_vilelan.htm Familia Lule-Vilela]Bibliography
* Campbell, Lyle. (1997). "American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America". New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
* Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). "Ethnologue: Languages of the world" (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
* Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), "Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages" (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
* Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), "Atlas of the world's languages" (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.References
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