Huilliche (language)
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Chile | |
| speaker | approx. 2,000 (as of 1982) | |
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huh |
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Huilliche (also Veliche ) is a language in Chile that belongs to the small family of Araucanian languages . The only related language is the Mapudungun (language of the Mapuche ). Huilliche is only spoken by a few thousand (mostly elderly) people.
The name of the language comes from the name of the ethnic group ( Huilliche ), whose name is composed of Mapudungun willi "south" + che "people" (something like "southerners").
In Adelaar / Muysken (2004) the humane is treated as a dialect of Mapudungun; however, it is not mutually understandable with the (other) Mapuche dialects. In Ethnologue (2009), however, the humane is classified as an independent language.
literature
- Willem FH Adelaar , Pieter C. Muysken : The languages of the Andes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2004, ISBN 0-521-36275-X , pp. 510 and 517.
- Ernesto Wilhelm de Moesbach, Walterio Meyer Rusca : Los huilliches a través de sus apellidos. Estudio etimológico de los patronímicos aborígines surenõs. W. Meyer Rusca, Osorno 1953.
- Walterio Meyer Rusca, Ernesto Wilhelm de Moesbach: Diccionario geográfico-etimológico indígena de las provincias Valdivia, Osorno y Llanguihue. Imprenta San Francisco, Padre Las Casas 1955.
Web links
- Ugly. In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016.