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    spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan, and also known as Yámana, Háusi Kúta, or Yágankuta), is an extinct language that is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra...
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  • Yahgan people, an ethnic group of Argentina and Chile Yahgan language, their language Yaghan (dog), an extinct domesticated fox Yagan (disambiguation) Yagha...
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    survival of the Yaghan language. The native languages of Chile belong to four or five linguistic families. In addition, half a dozen other languages are known...
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  • Kawésqar language, the Ona language and the Yaghan language in addition to Chono, Gününa Yajich (also known as Puelche), and the Tehuelche language (Adelaar...
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    full-bloded Yaghan person; after the death of her sister Úrsula in 2005, Cristina became the last living native speaker of the Yaghan language. Missionary...
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    Cristina Calderón or "Abuela" (1928–2022), last native speaker of the Yaghan language Las abuelas, a 1965 Mexican telenovela The Grandmother (1981 film)...
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    Ushuaia (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    recognized Antarctic gateway cities. The word Ushuaia comes from the Yaghan language: ush and waia ("bay" or "cove") and means "deep bay" or "bay to background"...
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    Mamihlapinatapai (category Yaghan words and phrases)
    The word mamihlapinatapai is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct...
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    Strait of Magellan (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    south side of the strait Tierra del Fuego, which the Yaghan people called Onaisín in the Yaghan language. Magellan also gave the name Patagones to the mainland...
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    Tierra del Fuego (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Missionary Thomas Bridges (1842–1898) learned the native language and compiled a 30,000-word Yaghan grammar and dictionary while he worked at Ushuaia. It...
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  • Tehuelche people also spoke Teushen. Haush language Kawésqar language Selknam language Tehuelche language Yaghan language Adelaar and Muysken 556 Adelaar and...
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    Bahía Wulaia (category Yaghan)
    Michael Hogan, and was used by Yaghan into the 19th century. In November 1859 a settlement known as Wulaia was the site of a Yaghan massacre of all but one of...
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  • Chonan language family. Carlo Luigi Spegazzini (1899) cites the following Haush vocabulary. Yaghan language Selk'nam language Kawésqar language Adelaar...
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    Yahgan people (redirect from Yaghans)
    The Yahgan (also called Yagán, Yaghan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica) are a group of indigenous peoples in the Southern Cone of South America. Their traditional...
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    Lidia González (category Yaghan)
    Lidia Cristina González Calderón (born 1967) is a Yaghan (or Yámana) politician in Chile. González is a former city council member in Cabo de Hornos and...
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    Cristina Calderón (category Yaghan)
    Cristina, Lone Surviving Voice Of Yaghan Language". Worldcrunch. Retrieved 17 February 2022. "Chile's last Yaghan speaker dies aged 93". France 24. AFP...
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    once in a lifetime interviews with the last native speaker of the Yaghan language in Puerto Williams to members of the Shao Lin Kung Fu academy in China...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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  • regions. Finally, some such as Abipón and Yaghan, are now completely extinct. Since 2004 the Guaraní language is official, together with Spanish, in the...
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  • LOM Ediciones («Lom», means in yaghan language: «sun») is a Chilean press based in Santiago. It was established in 1990. Several Chileans and Latin American...
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    England. Bridges was the author of a dictionary of the Yámana or Yaghan language, and their son Lucas Bridges (1874-1949) wrote The Uttermost Part of...
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  • Villa Ukika (category Yaghan)
    Úrsula and Cristina Calderón, the last native speakers of the Yaghan language. The Yaghans residing in Villa Ukika owns a large part of the buildings on...
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    A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with another language. Basque in Europe, Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa...
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    Æ (category Articles containing Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text)
    orthography of Kawésqar spoken in Chile and also in that of the Fuegian language Yaghan. The symbol [æ] is also used in the International Phonetic Alphabet...
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    Fuegian dog (redirect from Yaghan (dog))
    The Fuegian dog, or Yahgan dog, or Patagonian dog (Spanish: perro fueguino, perro yagán, perro patagónico), is an extinct type of canid. In comparison...
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    Pernambuco) (also known as Shokó) † Xukurú (Brazil: Pernambuco, Paraíba) † Yaghan (Chile) (also known as Yámana) Yanomaman (4) Yaruro (also known as Jaruro)...
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  • An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
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    List of Indigenous writers of the Americas (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Cajete, Santa Clara Pueblo Cristina Calderón, Yaghan, Chile, 1928–2022, last speaker of the Yaghan language Victoria Belcourt Callihoo (1861-1966) Métis...
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    Chiloé Workers' United Center of Chile Wulff Castle Ximena Huilipán Yaghan language Yanteles Yareta Yate (volcano) Yelcho Lake Yerbas Buenas Yoya Martínez...
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    del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands Province Ushuaia Yaghan language (only one speaker left) Beagle conflict The Voyage of the Beagle Isla...
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