Mapudungun · language isolate
Mapudungun
1500 CE – today Living
Mapudungun (1500 CE – today) is a living language isolate.
See Mapudungun on the interactive map- Speakers
- 250K (250,000)
- ISO 639-3
- arn
- Glottocode
- mapu1245
Language of the Mapuche of south-central Chile and Argentina, usually treated as an isolate (Araucanian). First described in Luis de Valdivia's grammar (1606); the start date marks the period of documentation, not the language's origin.