Northern Mapudungun

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Northern Mapudungun is a regional variety of the Mapudungun language spoken by Mapuche communities in the northern part of their traditional territory in south-central Chile and nearby areas.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Northern Mapudungun canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional dialect
country Chile
ethnicGroup Mapuche
linked to: Mapuche people
hasAlternativeName Northern Mapuche
linked to: Mapuche people

Northern variety of Mapudungun
hasAncestor Proto-Araucanian
hasBasicWordOrder SOV-dominant
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration in stops (relative to Spanish)
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isDialectOf Mapudungun
isMinorityLanguageIn Chile
languageFamily Araucanian languages
languageFamilyBranch Mapudungun branch
languageRole community language
heritage language
languageStatus endangered language variety
partOf Mapudungun
regionType Andean region
sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith Central Mapudungun
Southern Mapudungun
spokenBy Mapuche people
spokenIn Chile
spokenInRegion northern part of Mapuche traditional territory
south-central Chile
subdivisionOf Mapudungun language
subjectTo language shift to Spanish
usedFor everyday communication in some communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
usedIn Mapuche communities

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Mapudungun hasDialects Northern Mapudungun
Southern Mapudungun hasDialectalRelationWith Northern Mapudungun