Get to Know the Mapudungun language and Mapuche culture

 

The Mapudungun language, sometimes spelt Mapuzugun or Mapudungu, is spoken by the Mapuche people in Chile and west central Argentina.

The word Mapudungun comes from mapu (land) and dungun (speak, speech), whilst Mapuche comes from mapu (land) and che (people).

There are thought to be several hundred thousands speakers of the Mapudungun language.

 

Why learn the Mapudungun language?

Santiago, the capital of Chile

Santiago, Chile

Photo by Francisco Kemeny on Unsplash

Speakers :

260,000

Where :

Chile, Argentina

Dialects :

North, Central, South-Central, South

Map showing where the Mapudungun language is spoken in Chile and Argentina
 
 

Cover Image

Parque Nacional Conguillio, Temuco, Chile

Photo by Franz Nawrath on Unsplash

Map

By Heinrich Puschmann - Own work, using background maps produced by RAVL with Generic Mapping Tools (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39305754

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