Kunza language

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Kunza language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken by the Atacameño people of northern Chile and surrounding Andean regions.

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf extinct language
indigenous language
language
alternativeName Atacameño NERFINISHED
Likan Antai NERFINISHED
Likanantaí
associatedEthnicity Atacameño people NERFINISHED
Likan Antai people NERFINISHED
country Chile
culturalRegion Atacama culture area NERFINISHED
documentedBy Chilean linguists
Jesuit missionaries
endangeredStatusBeforeExtinction severely endangered
extinctionCentury 20th century
hasCulturalSignificanceFor Atacameño identity
hasDomain astronomical terminology
mining-related terminology
pastoralism terminology
hasLexicalSimilarityWith neighboring Andean languages (low)
hasLinguisticDocumentation ethnographic records
grammatical notes
word lists
hasLoanwordsIn Chilean Spanish toponyms
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple consonant inventory
hasRevitalizationEffort yes
hasRevitalizationStakeholder Atacameño communities in San Pedro de Atacama
Chilean academic institutions
influencedToponymyOf Atacama Desert NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code kuz
languageFamily language isolate
region Central Andes NERFINISHED
South America
replacedBy Spanish language
spokenBy Atacameño people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Andes NERFINISHED
Antofagasta Region NERFINISHED
Atacama Desert NERFINISHED
northern Chile NERFINISHED
status extinct
UNESCOStatus extinct
usedFor ritual practices
toponyms in Atacama Desert
traditional agriculture terminology
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Atacameño languageFamily Kunza language
Atacameño people language Kunza language
Atacameño people languageStatus Kunza language
this entity surface form: Kunza language is considered extinct as a native language