| Enlhet | |
| Also Known As: | Northern Lengua |
| Pronunciation: | pronounced as /[enɬet]/ |
| States: | Paraguay |
| Ethnicity: | 7,220 Enxet people (2002 census) |
| Date: | 2002 census |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Mascoian |
| Iso3: | enl |
| Glotto: | nort2971 |
| Glottorefname: | Northern Lengua |
| Region: | Presidente Hayes |
| Nativename: | Enlhet |
Enlhet (Eenlhit), or Northern Lengua, is a language of the Paraguayan Chaco, spoken by the northern Enxet people. It is also known as Vowak and Powok.
In Filadelfia (Paraguayan Chaco) there is an organization that advocates for Enlhet language.[1]
Three vowel sounds are noted phonemically as /a ɛ ɔ/.[2]
| Phoneme | Allophone | |
|---|---|---|
| /a/ | [a], [æ], [ɐ] | |
| /ɛ/ | [ɛ], [ə], [ɪ] | |
| /ɔ/ | [ɔ], [ʊ] |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Nasal | plain | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| glottalized | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Lateral | approximant | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| fricative | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Semivowel | plain | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| glottalized | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||