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Preferred term

arnMapuche  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Mapuche language, Mapudungun (from earth, land and speak, speech) is a language isolate spoken in south-central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche (from mapu and che people) people. It is also spelled Mapuzugun and sometimes called Mapudungu or Araucanian (Araucano). The latter was the name given to the Mapuche by the Spaniards but nowadays both the Mapuche and others avoid this usage. The number of speakers differs depending on definition and research methodology. In the political struggle between the ethnic minority and the Chilean and Argentinian governments the different groups support different research results. Mapuche-written publications from 2008 supports research showing approximately 700,000 speakers. Other results report approximately 240,000 speakers, with 200,000 in the Central Valley of Chile and 40,000 in several Argentine provinces, where some 150,000 people use the language regularly.

Entry terms

  • Araucanian
  • Mapuche language
  • Mapudungun

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • arn

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • arn

ISO 639-3 code

  • arn

Notation

  • arn

In other languages

  • araukan

    French

  • mapudungun
  • Mapudungun
  • Mapudungun

    German

  • Araukanisch
  • araucano

    Italian

  • Lingua mapudungun
  • Portuguese

  • Mapudungun
  • araucano

    Spanish

  • Idioma mapuche
  • mapudungun

URI

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

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