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Mapudungun

Mapudungun proper noun: a language isolate spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people.

Proper noun

Mapudungun

  1. A language isolate spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people.
    Synonyms:
    Araucanian

Synonyms of Mapudungun

Forms of Mapudungun

alternative formMapundungun

Origin of Mapudungun

From Mapudungun mapu(n) (“earth, land”) + dungun (“speak, speech”).

Questions about Mapudungun

What does Mapudungun mean?
Mapudungun means a language isolate spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people.
What part of speech is Mapudungun?
Mapudungun is a proper noun.

Words near Mapudungun in the dictionary

  1. Mapson
  2. Mapsons
  3. mapu
  4. Mapuche
  5. Mapuchization
  6. Mapudungun
  7. mapudzi
  8. Mapulang Daga
  9. Mapundungun
  10. Mapusa
  11. Maputo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mapudungun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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