Mapudungun

Mapudungun is a language isolate spoken by the Mapuche people in Chile and Argentina. Even after the arrival of the Spaniards, ethnic groups in Argentina such as the Patagonians and the Tehuelche adopted Mapudungun in a process called Araucanization. Today, it has 260,000 speakers, with 250,000 in the Central Valley of Chile and 10,000 in the Argentinian region of Patagonia.

Mapuche
Mapudungun
Native to	Chile, Argentina
Ethnicity	Mapuche
Native speakers	260,000[1] (2007)
Language family	Araucanian Mapuche
Language codes
ISO 639-2	arn
ISO 639-3	arn
ELP	Mapudungun
Region where most mapuche lived in 2002. Orange: mapuche at the countryside; dark: mapuche in a city; white: non-mapuche. The circle of a place has an area as if 40 persons from there were living in a square of 1 km side.

Mapudungun text that means "Uprise Meeting".

The name of the boldo tree comes from the Mapudungun word foldo. The poncho was adopted by Spanish and many other languages. It may have come from the Mapudungun word pontro or from the Quechua word punchu.