Enxet

The Enxet, or Southern Lengua, are the southern kin of the Enlhet in the Paraguayan Gran Chaco, their traditional forest country stretching westward from the Paraguay River for about two hundred kilometres. Like the Enlhet their name means person, and they call their language enxet appeywa, the people's word, a tongue of the Lengua-Maskoy family. Long treated as the southern dialect of a single Lengua people, they speak a closely related yet distinct language.

Hunter-gatherers of the thorn forest, they lived from game, fish, wild fruit and honey in small roaming bands.