Chonan languages

The Chon languages ​​are an indigenous language family of South America, which is common in southern Argentina and neighboring regions in Chile. The Chon - languages ​​are also called patagons languages. The language of Selk'nam (also: Ona, ISO 639-3 ona ), which belongs to the Chon - languages ​​, extinct; an additional language, tehuelche [ teh ], is spoken by only about two dozen people. The name and the assignment of Languages ​​( 1913) goes back to the German - Argentine anthropologist Robert Lehmann- Nitsche.

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  • Harald Haarmann: Small lexicon of languages. Beck, Munich, 2001.
Tehuelche language
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