Kawésqar
[aka Kawesqar, Kaweskar, Qawasqar]Classification: Kawesqaran (Alacalufan)
·critically endangered
Classification: Kawesqaran (Alacalufan)
·critically endangered
Kawesqar, Kaweskar, Qawasqar, Kawashkar, Qawashqar, Halakwalup, Pecheré, Southern Alacaluf, |
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Kawesqaran (Alacalufan) |
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ISO 639-3; Glottolog |
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alc; qawa1238 |
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Information from: “Kawesqar (Chile) - Language Snapshot” . Rodrigo Becerra (2019) , Peter K. Austin · ELPublishing
Oral traditions of animal tales and songs have been documented, and used to be performed.
Documentation projects have produced brief dictionaries, translated traditional narratives, a pedagogical grammar, two teaching handbooks, and a sound archive; however, conversational communicative events remain undocumented.
Information from: “Documenting Kawesqar, the last spoken Fueguian language” . Aguilera, Oscar (2009)
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Kawesqar is spoken today by only 7 persons as a first language in their daily interaction. There is a small number of urban semi-speakers who rarely speak the language and use only Spanish as their means of communication, and more than 200 Kawesqar-descendants whose mother tongue is Spanish.
Spanish
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)” . Paul M. Lewis; Gary F. Simons; and Charles D. Fennig · Dallas, Texas: SIL International
West Patagonia, Channel region, Isle of Wellington off south Chilean coast, 49 degrees south