Mapudungun
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| Mapuche | |
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| Mapudungun | |
| Native to | Chile, Argentina |
| Ethnicity | Mapuche |
| Native speakers | 700,000[1] (2008) |
| Language family |
Araucanian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | arn |
| ISO 639-3 | arn |
Graffiti in Mapudungun meaning "War Council".
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Mapudungun is a language isolate spoken by Mapuche people, in Chile and Argentina. Its speakers number 440,000, with 400,000 in the Central Valley of Chile and 40,000 in the Argentinian region of Patagonia. Some 200,000 people use the language regularly. "Poncho" is a word adopted by Spanish language and then in many language so used. Other ethnic groups adopted Mapudungun, e. g. Patagonians or Tehuelche, after the arrival of Hispaniard. This process is named araucanization.
References [change]
- ↑ (Spanish) Berretta, Cañumil, Cañumil (2008) Diccionario Castellano-Mapuche. ISBN 978-987-05-4139-4
