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** Mapudungun is a language isolate, meaning that is not historically or linguistically related to other languages
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** It is natively spoken by the Mapuche people, who live in central Chile and central-western Argentina; approx. 144,000 native speakers in Chile and approx. 8400 in Argentina
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** Mapudungun was once known as Araucanian, which was a name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish - this name is now considered offensive
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* Futuna
 
* Futuna
 
* Wichi
 
* Wichi
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* http://aboutworldlanguages.com/language-isolates
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche_language

Revision as of 12:18, 24 January 2018

I would like to work with Kevin Murphy (User:Kmurphy4). He has a much stronger background in linguistics than I do, which will complement my past work in computer science for this class.

Three languages we are thinking about are:

  • Mapudungun
    • Mapudungun is a language isolate, meaning that is not historically or linguistically related to other languages
    • It is natively spoken by the Mapuche people, who live in central Chile and central-western Argentina; approx. 144,000 native speakers in Chile and approx. 8400 in Argentina
    • Mapudungun was once known as Araucanian, which was a name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish - this name is now considered offensive
  • Futuna
  • Wichi


Sources: