Alacalufan languages
| Alacalufan | |
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| Kawesqaran | |
| Ethnicity: | Alacaluf people |
| Geographic distribution: |
Chile |
| Linguistic classification: | one of the world's primary language families |
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| Glottolog: | kawe1237[1] |
The Alacalufan languages are a small language family of South America. They have not been definitely linked to any other American language family.[2][3]
Languages
Early vocabularies show that Alakaluf was three languages, with an extinct Southern Alakaluf (vocabularies in Fitz-Roy 1839 and Hyades & Deniker 1891) and Central Alakaluf (vocabularies in Borgatello 1928, Marcel 1892, and Skottsberg 1913) in addition to the critically endangered northern variety, Kawésqar.[4]
Based on alleged toponymic evidence, a purported Kakauhua language has sometimes been included in the Alacalufan family.
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- ↑ Campbell, L. (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Adelaar, W. F. H., & Muysken, P. C. (2004). The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ Viegas Barros (1990, 2005), cited in Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
