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mapudungun

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ma-pudun-gun
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A language isolate spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Mapundungun (alternative)

Phrases

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Frequently Paired Words

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Synonyms

Araucanian

Questions

What does mapudungun mean?
A language isolate spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people.
Where does mapudungun come from?
From Mapudungun mapu(n) (“earth, land”) + dungun (“speak, speech”).

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