Kawésqar | |
---|---|
Alacaluf | |
Kawésqar, Qawasqar | |
Native to | Chile |
Region | Channel Region, western Patagonia, Wellington Island off south Chilean coast, 49° south, with centre in Puerto Edén. |
Ethnicity | 2,600 Alacaluf people (2002 census) [1] |
Native speakers | 10 (2019) [2] |
Alacalufan
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
alc |
Glottolog |
qawa1238 |
ELP | Kawésqar |
Kawésqar is classified as Critically Endangered by the
UNESCO
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Kawésqar (Qawasqar), also known as Alacaluf, [3] is a critically endangered Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people. Originally part of a small family, [4] only the northern language remains. In 2009, only a handful of elderly people spoke the language, most of whom lived on Wellington Island off the southwest coast of Chile. [2]
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | æ | a |
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
Plosive | Plain | p | t | t͡ɕ | k | q | ʔ |
Ejective | pʼ | tʼ | t͡ɕʼ | kʼ | |||
Fricative | f | s | x | h | |||
Tap / flap | ɾ | ||||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
The alphabet in use has the following letters: a, æ, c, cꞌ, e, f, h, i, j, k, kꞌ, l, m, n, o, p, pꞌ, q, r, rr, s, t, tꞌ, u, w, x. However, differences are reported between dialects, and some sounds are not represented.
Kawésqar has a complex system of grammatical tense, which includes a basic morphological contrast between future, present, immediate past, recent past, distant past, and mythological past events.
Kawésqar | |
---|---|
Alacaluf | |
Kawésqar, Qawasqar | |
Native to | Chile |
Region | Channel Region, western Patagonia, Wellington Island off south Chilean coast, 49° south, with centre in Puerto Edén. |
Ethnicity | 2,600 Alacaluf people (2002 census) [1] |
Native speakers | 10 (2019) [2] |
Alacalufan
| |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
alc |
Glottolog |
qawa1238 |
ELP | Kawésqar |
Kawésqar is classified as Critically Endangered by the
UNESCO
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Kawésqar (Qawasqar), also known as Alacaluf, [3] is a critically endangered Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people. Originally part of a small family, [4] only the northern language remains. In 2009, only a handful of elderly people spoke the language, most of whom lived on Wellington Island off the southwest coast of Chile. [2]
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | æ | a |
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
Plosive | Plain | p | t | t͡ɕ | k | q | ʔ |
Ejective | pʼ | tʼ | t͡ɕʼ | kʼ | |||
Fricative | f | s | x | h | |||
Tap / flap | ɾ | ||||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | w | l | j |
The alphabet in use has the following letters: a, æ, c, cꞌ, e, f, h, i, j, k, kꞌ, l, m, n, o, p, pꞌ, q, r, rr, s, t, tꞌ, u, w, x. However, differences are reported between dialects, and some sounds are not represented.
Kawésqar has a complex system of grammatical tense, which includes a basic morphological contrast between future, present, immediate past, recent past, distant past, and mythological past events.