Mapudungun

mapudungun

Mapudungun is a language, spoken in Argentina and Chile. Wikidata counts about 300,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “language spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people”.

6b · ThreatenedLatn 300,000

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: arn
Glottocode: mapu1245
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 6b Threatened
UNESCO: Definitely endangered
Wikipedia: 110 language editions

—first-language speakers

—second-language speakers

2countries

1scripts

—levels in the tree

6bEGIDS level

Facts

Name	Mapudungun · mapudungun
Also called	Mapuche, Mapuche language, Mapuzugun, Mapudungu, Araucanian
All speakers	300,000
Written in	Latin script

Vitality

EGIDS 6b Threatened6b

Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.

Other languages at this level

UNESCO: Definitely endangered

Languages at this level

where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Mapudungun is spoken — Map: Breogan2008 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Argentina28 languages in the index Chile9 languages in the index

Also spoken in Argentina

spaSpanishIndo-European · 555.6 m1 · National hyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · National grnGuaraniTupian · 4.5 mSafe slvSloveneIndo-European · 2.4 m1 · National vecVenetianIndo-European · 2 m5 · Developing quhSouth Bolivian QuechuaQuechua · 1.6 m5 · Developing yidYiddishIndo-European · 1 mDefinitely endangered cymWelshIndo-European · 724,0002 · Provincial rmyVlax RomaniIndo-European · 538,4806b · Threatened qusSantiagueño QuechuaQuechua · 170,0006a · Vigorous