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Name:
Mapudungu
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Mapudungun; Araucano; Maputongo; Mapuche; Araucanian; "Auca"
Spoken in:
Chile, Argentina
Number of speakers:
200,000 in Chile (1982 SIL). Population total all countries: 300,039. Ethnic population: 604,349 (2002)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
500000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
300000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
arn
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Isolates & Small Families
Parent Subgroup:
South American Isolates; South American Language Isolate (saso)
Child Dialects:
Pehuenche; Pewenche (arn-peh)
Cautín (arn-cau)
Río Negro (arn-rio)
Rucachoroy (arn-ruc)
Huilliche; Veliche; Huiliche; Beliche; Huilche; "Beliche"; Williche; Mapuche (huh)
Mapocho; Mapuchu (arn-map)
Chubut (arn-chu)
Ranquel; Ranqueles (arn-ran)
Picunche (arn-pic)
Neuquén (arn-neu)
Ngoluche; Moluche; Manzanero; Nguluche (arn-mol)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Mapudungu
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