Mapudungun
Sign in to saveMapudungun (from 'land' and 'speak, speech', meaning 'the speech of the land'; also rendered as Mapuzugun and Mapudungu) or Mapuche ( , ; from 'land' and 'people', meaning 'the people of the land') is a language, either a language isolate or member of the small Araucanian family related to Huilliche, spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people. It was formerly known as Araucanian, the name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish. The Mapuche avoid this term as a remnant of Spanish colonialism.
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Mapudungun is a language spoken by the Mapuche people in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina, whose name literally means "the speech of the land." The language matters as an important marker of Mapuche cultural identity and represents a distinct linguistic tradition that the Mapuche people have preserved despite its colonial history.
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Key facts
- Language.iso3
- arn
- Language.name
- Mapudungun
- Language.altname
- Mapuche, Chilidúgu
- Language.nativename
- ,
- Language.states
- Chile Argentina
- Language.nation
- Galvarino ()Padre Las Casas ()Temuco ()
- Language.ethnicity
- 1,718,000 Mapuche
- Language.date
- 2007
- Language.ref
- e24
- Language.familycolor
- American
- Language.fam1
- Araucanian
- Language.iso2
- arn
- Language.glotto
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28 sectionsContents
- Name
- Classification
- History
- Prehistory
- Spanish–Mapuche bilingualism in colonial times
- Further decline
- Revitalization
- Dialects
- Phonology
- Prosody
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Orthography
- Microsoft legal threats
- Morphology
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Studies
- Older works
- Modern works
- Bibliography
- Dictionaries
- Mapudungun language courses
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Mapudungun (from 'land' and 'speak, speech', meaning 'the speech of the land'; also rendered as Mapuzugun and Mapudungu) or Mapuche ( , ; from 'land' and 'people', meaning 'the people of the land') is a language, either a language isolate or member of the small Araucanian family related to Huilliche, spoken in south-central Chile and west-central Argentina by the Mapuche people. It was formerly known as Araucanian, the name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish. The Mapuche avoid this term as a remnant of Spanish colonialism.
Mapudungun is not an official national language of Chile or Argentina, having received virtually no government support throughout its history. However, since 2013, Mapuche, along with Spanish, has been granted the status of an official language by the local government of Galvarino, one of the many communes of Chile. It is not used as a language of instruction in either country's educational system despite the Chilean government's commitment to provide full access to education in Mapuche areas in southern Chile. There is an ongoing political debate over which alphabet to use as the standard alphabet of written Mapudungun.