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Languages of Chile
Languages spoken in Chile.
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Family↕ | Group↕ | Language↕ | Territory↕ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aymaran A widely spoken language, the southern branch of Chile still has many speakers. | Aymara | Arica and Parinacota, Tarapacá | — |
| Austronesian An extended linguistic family of the Pacific Ocean, which reached Easter Island around the 5th century. | Malayo-Polynesian | Polynesian | Rapa Nui |
| Chonan The Chon languages form a clear phylogenetic group and only recent evidence has been provided to link it to Puelche. | Chon | Selkʼnam (†) | Magallanes |
| Tehuelche (†) | Aysén, Magallanes | — | — |
| Puelche | Gününa këna (†) | Los Ríos, Los Lagos | — |
| Huarpean Originally from Cuyo, during the 17th century, many Huarpes were deported to Santiago where they became a large community. | Allentiac (†) | Santiago | — |
| Millcayac (†) | Santiago | — | — |
| Quechuan These languages constitute different families of languages since not all varieties of Quechua are mutually understandable. | Quechua II | Southern Quechua | El Loa |
| Language isolates Attempts have been made to group these languages into larger families but without success. | Kawésqar | Magallanes | — |
| Kunza (†?) | Antofagasta | — | — |
| Mapudungun | Araucanía, Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Biobío, Los Ríos, Los Lagos | — | — |
| Yaghan (†) | Magallanes | — | — |
| Unclassified languages There is also a group of languages very scarcely documented and references to languages of extinct peoples, which have not been classified due to lack of information. | Cacán (†?) | Atacama | — |
| Chono (†) | Los Lagos, Aysén | — | — |
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