Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Mapudungun

2013; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0025100312000369

1475-3502

Scott Sadowsky, Héctor Painequeo, G Gastón Salamanca, Heriberto Avelino,

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Mapudungun (/mpʊðʊˈŋʊn/ or /mpʊθʊˈŋʊn/; also known as 'Mapudungu', 'Mapuzugun', 'Mapuche', 'Mapuchedungun', 'Chedungun' and 'Araucanian' or 'Araucano' (the latter two being archaic)) is a language isolate spoken actively by approximately 144,000 people in Chile (Zúñiga 2007), as well as by some 8,400 people in Argentina (Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos 2005), virtually all of whom are bilingual in Spanish. Its ISO 639–3 code is arn.