Mapuzugun

E815772

Mapuzugun is the indigenous language of the Mapuche people of Chile and Argentina, belonging to the Araucanian language family.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mapuzugun canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

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

Mapudungun
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Huilliche language
countryStatus recognized minority language in Argentina
recognized minority language in Chile
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Mapuche people
glottocode mapu1245
hasCulturalRole core marker of Mapuche identity
vehicle of Mapuche oral literature
hasDialects Huilliche
Moluche
linked to: Moluche people

Nguluche
Pehuenche
hasLinguisticResearch described by María Catrileo
described by Rodolfo Lenz
hasLoanwordsFrom Spanish
hasMorphologicalFeature complex verbal morphology
extensive use of suffixes
hasOrthography Azümchefe alphabet
linked to: Alfabeto Unificado

Raguileo orthography
Unified Alphabet (Grafemario Unificado)
linked to: Alfabeto Unificado
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration in stops and affricates
rich system of affricates
hasRevitalizationEffort bilingual education programs in Chile
community language courses
radio broadcasts in Mapuzugun
hasStandardizationStatus no fully standardized orthography
influencedLexiconOf Chilean Spanish
ISO639-2Code arn
ISO639-3Code arn
languageFamily Araucanian languages
languageTypology agglutinative language
nativeName mapuzugun
region Patagonia
Southern Chile
linked to: southern Chile
spokenBy Mapuche communities in Araucanía Region
urban Mapuche populations in Santiago
spokenIn Argentina
Chile
usedFor daily communication among Mapuche communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Mapudungun hasAlternativeName Mapuzugun
Mapudungun alternateName Mapuzugun
subject linked to: Mapudungun language
Mapudungun hasNativeName Mapuzugun
subject linked to: Mapudungun language