Chonan languages

E578655

language family

The Chonan languages are an extinct family of indigenous languages once spoken in southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in southern South America.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Chonan languages canonical	2
Chon languages	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	language family ⓘ
alternativeName	Chon languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Patagonian languages ⓘ
continent	South America ⓘ
documentationStatus	poorly documented ⓘ
extinctionReason	language shift to Spanish ⓘ
familyColor	American ⓘ
hasMember	Gününa küne language NERFINISHED ⓘ Haush language NERFINISHED ⓘ Selk'nam language NERFINISHED ⓘ Tehuelche language NERFINISHED ⓘ
indigenousTo	southern South America ⓘ
lastSpeakersDied	20th century ⓘ
linguisticClassification	one of the indigenous language families of Patagonia ⓘ
possibleRelation	Mosetenan languages (hypothetical macro-family proposals) ⓘ Pano-Tacanan languages (hypothetical macro-family proposals) ⓘ
region	Tierra del Fuego NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Patagonia ⓘ
researchField	historical linguistics ⓘ
spokenBy	Gününa küne people ⓘ Selk'nam people NERFINISHED ⓘ Tehuelche peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ Chile NERFINISHED ⓘ
status	extinct ⓘ
studiedBy	José Pedro Viegas Barros NERFINISHED ⓘ Rodolfo Casamiquela NERFINISHED ⓘ
subclassOf	indigenous languages of the Americas ⓘ
typologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology (reconstructed) ⓘ
writingSystem	primarily unwritten ⓘ

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

Selk'nam → languageFamily → Chonan languages ⓘ

Araucanian languages → languageContact → Chonan languages ⓘ

Puquina → hasProposedRelation → Chonan languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chon languages