Mapudungun language

E234610

Mapudungun is the indigenous language of the Mapuche people of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, belonging to the Araucanian language family and still spoken by a significant community today.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mapudungun language canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Araucanian language
indigenous language
language
alternateName Mapuche
linked to: Mapuche people

Mapudungu
linked to: Mapudungun

Mapuzugun
country Argentina
Chile
ethnicGroup Mapuche people
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialects Huilliche
Nguluche
Pehuenche
hasDomain agriculture
culture
religion
toponymy
traditional medicine
hasGlottocode mapu1245
hasGlottologName Mapudungun
hasISO639-1Code arn
hasISO639-2Code arn
hasISO639-3Code arn
hasLoanwordsIn Chilean Spanish
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNativeName Mapudungun
Mapuzugun
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
vowel harmony absence
hasRevitalizationEfforts bilingual education programs
community language courses
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
influenced place names in Argentina
place names in Chile
languageFamily Araucanian
Araucanian languages
region Southern Cone
spokenIn Argentina
Chile
spokenInRegion south-central Chile
southwestern Argentina
status endangered language
minority language
taughtAt some Argentine universities
some Chilean universities
usedBy Mapuche communities
usedIn everyday communication
oral literature
traditional ceremonies
writingSystemType alphabet

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mapuche people knownFor Mapudungun language
Machi associatedWith Mapudungun language
Nguillatun associatedWith Mapudungun language
American Indian languages includeLanguage Mapudungun language