Mapudungun

Also known as Mapuche, Mapuche language, Mapuzugun, Mapudungu, Araucanian, arn, Chilidugu, Chilidungu

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.

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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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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: mapu1245
Language.glottorefname: Mapudungun
Language.map: Idioma mapuche.jpg
Language.notice: IPA
Language.imagecaption: A Mapudungun speaker.
Language.image: WIKITONGUES- Victor speaking Mapudungun.webm

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Image: Mapudungun.jpg

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 300000
native label: Mapudungun
Wikimedia language code: arn
Commons category: Mapudungun language
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ARN
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Wikimedia Incubator URL: incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/arn

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Contents

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 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.