The Araucanian languages are a small language family of indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken in central Chile and neighboring areas of Argentina. Its two living members are Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people, with roughly 200,000 speakers in Chile and 40,000 in Argentina, and Huilliche, the language of the Huilliche people, spoken natively by a few thousand Chileans.
Facts
RegionCentral Chile and neighboring areas of Argentina 1 Proto-Language StatusContested as a family: the two living members, Mapudungun and Huilliche, are usually treated as divergent dialects of a single language isolate rather than as separately descended branches 1 In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Araucanian Languages
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These are usually considered divergent dialects of a single language isolate.
Wikidata: Araucanian
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