Aché language should not be confused with Ache Yi language.
| Aché | |
| Nativename: | Guayakí |
| States: | Paraguay |
| Region: | Alto Paraná |
| Ethnicity: | Aché |
| Speakers: | 910 |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Ref: | e22 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Tupian |
| Fam2: | Tupí–Guaraní |
| Fam3: | Guaraní (I) |
| Iso3: | guq |
| Glotto: | ache1246 |
| Glottorefname: | Aché |
Aché, also known as Guayaki, is a Guarani language of Paraguay with three living dialects: Ache gatu, Ache wa, and Ñacunday River Ache. The Ñacunday River dialect has low mutual intelligibility with the other two dialects.
| Close | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |
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| Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ |
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
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| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| prenasalized | pronounced as /ᵐb/ | pronounced as /ⁿd/ | pronounced as /ⁿd͡ʒ/ | pronounced as /ᵑɡ/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Flap | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||