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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

In other languages

  • الأروكانية

    Arabic

  • Idioma mapudungun

    Aragonese

  • Mapuchi aru

    Aymara

  • araukanca

    Azerbaijani

  • অ্যারোকেনিয়

    Bangla

  • Mapudungun

    Basque

  • ароканијски

    Bosnian

  • araoukaneg

    Breton

  • Mapoudoungouneg
  • мапуче

    Bulgarian

  • Мапуче
  • araucà

    Catalan

  • Mapudungun
  • araukanski

    Croatian

  • araukánština

    Czech

  • araukansk

    Danish

  • Mapudungun
  • Araukaans

    Dutch

  • Mapudungun
  • Mapuĉa lingvo

    Esperanto

  • araukaani

    Estonian

  • Finnish

  • Mapudungun
  • araukan

    French

  • mapudungun
  • Mapudungun
  • Lingua mapuche

    Galician

  • მაპუდუნგუნი

    Georgian

  • Mapudungun

    German

  • Araukanisch
  • Αρουκάνιαν

    Greek

  • એરોકૈનિયન

    Gujarati

  • אראוקנית

    Hebrew

  • एरोकैनियन

    Hindi

  • araucani

    Hungarian

  • arákaníska

    Icelandic

  • Mapudungun
  • Araukan

    Indonesian

  • araucano

    Italian

  • Lingua mapudungun
  • マプチェ語

    Japanese

  • アラウカン語
  • ಅರೌಕೇನಿಯನ್

    Kannada

  • ایرو کونِیَن

    Kashmiri

  • 마푸둥군어

    Korean

  • 아라우칸어
  • ອາຣົວຄານຽນ

    Lao

  • araukāņu

    Latvian

  • Mapuču valoda
  • araukanų

    Lithuanian

  • Mapudungunų kalba
  • Lengua mapuche

    Lombard

  • арокенски

    Macedonian

  • ആരൗകാനിയൻ

    Malayalam

  • Arawkanjan

    Maltese

  • अ‍ॅरॉकॅनियन

    Marathi

  • araukansk

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • araukansk

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • ଆରାଉକାନିଆନ୍

    Odia

  • آروکانیایی

    Persian

  • Lenga mapudungun

    Piedmontese

  • araukański

    Polish

  • Język mapudungun
  • araucano

    Portuguese

  • Mapudungun
  • Mapudungun simi

    Quechua

  • araucaniană

    Romanian

  • araucanic

    Romansh

  • арауканский

    Russian

  • Арауканский язык
  • Ароканијски

    Serbian

  • araukánčina

    Slovak

  • aravkanščina

    Slovenian

  • araucano

    Spanish

  • Idioma mapuche
  • mapudungun
  • Swedish

  • Mapudungun
  • Araukanisch

    Swiss German

  • அரௌகேனியன்

    Tamil

  • అరౌకేనియన్

    Telugu

  • อาเราคาเนียน

    Thai

  • Mapudungun

    Turkish

  • Araukanya Dili
  • Мапудунґун

    Ukrainian

  • арауканська
  • Tiếng Araucanian

    Vietnamese

  • Arawcaneg

    Welsh

URI

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

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