Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Tapieté

Language; Endangered languages

Tapieté is a subdialect of Eastern Bolivian Guaraní spoken by 33 Paraguayans (Out of an ethnic group numbering 513 to 1,519), 100 Argentines, and 70 Bolivians. It is also known as Guasurango, ...

Tehuelche

Language; Endangered languages

Tehuelche (Aoniken, Inaquen, Gunua-Kena, Gununa-Kena) is a nearly extinct Chon language spoken by four people in Patagonia out of an ethnic group of 200. They were originally nomadic hunters from ...

Toba is a Guaicuruan language spoken in South America by the Toba people. In Argentina it is most widely dispersed in the east of Formosa and Chaco Provinces where the majority of the approximately ...

Vilela

Language; Endangered languages

Vilela (Uakambalelté, Atalalá, Chulupí~Chunupí)[1] is a nearly extinct language which is only spoken in the Resistencia province of Argentina and in the eastern Chaco near the Paraguayan border. ...

Wichí

Language; Endangered languages

Wichi is the most widely spoken language of the Matacoan language family. The total number of speakers can only be estimated; no reliable figures exist. The Wichí language is predominantly suffixing ...

Yagán

Language; Endangered languages

Yagán (originally Yahgan, but also now spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan), also known as Yámana and Háusi Kúta, is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yagán people. It is ...

Lapachu

Language; Endangered languages

Lapachu, also known as Apolista, is an extinct Arawakan language of Bolivia. Aikhenvald (1999) classifies it together with Terena, Moxos, and related languages. It is not clear from surviving ...