A Look at Chile’s Indigenous Languages

by admin on April 28th, 2011

The official language of Chile is Spanish. However, there are a few other languages spoken in the country by a large portion of the population. They are indigenous tongues and have been in existence before Spanish was taken to Chile.

Mapudungun

Speakers of this tongue are called the Mapuche. They are located in south-central Chile and there are about 400,000 in the country. Outside of Chile, other countries have Mapudungun speakers such as neighboring Argentina.

Chilean Quechua

Quechua speakers are found in many places in the South America. The Chilean version is said to be comparable to Bolivian Quechua. Some experts More