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Preferred term

huhHuilliche  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Huilliche language (also known as Veliche and Huiliche) is an Araucanian language spoken (as of 1982) by about 2,000 ethnic Huilliche people in Chile. It is spoken in an area south of the area inhabited by the Mapuche, in the nation's Los Lagos and Los Ríos regions; and mountain valleys, between the city of Valdivia and south toward Chiloé Archipelago. Huilliche has a dialect called Tsesungún.

Entry terms

  • Huilliche language

ISO 639-3 code

  • huh

Notation

  • huh

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URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/huh

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