Chon languages
The Chon languages are an indigenous language family from South America that is common in southern Argentina and neighboring regions in Chile . The Chon languages are also called the Patagon languages. The Selk'nam language (also: Ona , ISO 639-3 : ona), which belongs to the Chon languages, is extinct; another language, Tehuelche [teh], is only spoken by about two dozen people. The name and the assignment of the languages (1913) goes back to the German-Argentine anthropologist Robert Lehmann-Nitsche .
literature
- Harald Haarmann : Small Lexicon of Languages. From Albanian to Zulu (= Beck series. 1432). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47558-2 .