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Kawésqar

Kawésqar noun: a member of an indigenous people of the Tierra del Fuego.

Noun

Kawésqar (plural Kawésqars or Kawésqar)

  1. A member of an indigenous people of the Tierra del Fuego.
    • [T]he Kawesqar, who occupied the islands and coast of the western sector of the Magellan Strait.2009, María Estela Mansur, and Raquel Piqué, “Between the Forest and the Sea: Hunter-Gatherer Occupations in the Subantarctic Forests in Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina”, in Arctic Anthropology, volume...

Proper noun

Kawésqar

  1. An Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Alacaluf people.
    • [A]lso in the Kawesqar or Alacaluf language of southern Chile.2008, Willem Adelaar, “Towards a typological profile of the Andean languages”, in Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics,, volume 33, page 27

Forms of Kawésqar

pluralKawésqars
pluralKawésqar
alternative formKawesqar

Questions about Kawésqar

What does Kawésqar mean?
Kawésqar means a member of an indigenous people of the Tierra del Fuego.
What part of speech is Kawésqar?
Kawésqar can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Kawésqar?
The plural of Kawésqar is Kawésqars.

Words near Kawésqar in the dictionary

  1. kawn
  2. kawns
  3. kaws
  4. Kawthoolei
  5. kawwana
  6. Kawésqar
  7. Kawésqars
  8. Kaxgar
  9. Kaxkar
  10. Kaxĝär
  11. kay

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