Northern Mapudungun

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Northern Mapudungun is a regional variety of the Mapudungun language spoken by Mapuche communities in the northern part of their traditional territory in south-central Chile and nearby areas.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf language variety
regional dialect
country Chile
ethnicGroup Mapuche NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Northern Mapuche NERFINISHED
Northern variety of Mapudungun
hasAncestor Proto-Araucanian NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SOV-dominant
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive aspiration in stops (relative to Spanish)
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isDialectOf Mapudungun NERFINISHED
isMinorityLanguageIn Chile NERFINISHED
languageFamily Araucanian languages NERFINISHED
languageFamilyBranch Mapudungun branch
languageRole community language
heritage language
languageStatus endangered language variety
partOf Mapudungun NERFINISHED
regionType Andean region NERFINISHED
sharesMutualIntelligibilityWith Central Mapudungun NERFINISHED
Southern Mapudungun NERFINISHED
spokenBy Mapuche people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Chile NERFINISHED
spokenInRegion northern part of Mapuche traditional territory
south-central Chile
subdivisionOf Mapudungun language NERFINISHED
subjectTo language shift to Spanish
usedFor everyday communication in some communities
oral tradition
ritual practices
usedIn Mapuche communities

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Mapudungun hasDialects Northern Mapudungun