• Kunza is an extinct language isolate once spoken in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and southern Peru by the Atacama people, who have since shifted...
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    similarities with the Kechua, Kunza, Leko, Uru-Chipaya, Arawak, and Pukina language families due to contact. Aymaran languages have only three phonemic vowels...
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    Licancabur (category Articles containing Kunza-language text)
    Inca or the burial of an Inca king. The name Licancabur comes from the Kunza language, where lican means "people" or "town" and cábur/ caur, caure or cauri...
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    Calama, Chile (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    "Calama," but the two main accounts suggest that it comes from the Kunza language, spoken in the past by the Lickan-antay, an ethnic group that resides...
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    Salar de Arizaro (category Articles containing Kunza-language text)
    Salar de Arizaro ("Arizaro" comes from Atacameno haâri "crow", "condor" and ara, aro, "accommodation", "place where something is common".) is a large salt...
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    Mapudungun, Kanichana, and Kunza language families due to contact. Jolkesky (2016) also suggests that similarities with Amazonian languages may be due to the early...
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  • speaker of Kunza language isolate was found in 1949, with the final shift to Spanish completed at some point in the 1950s. The Ona language spoken by Selk'nam...
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  • Huilliche is the native language of a few thousand Chileans. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Kunza, Mochika, Uru-Chipaya...
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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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    Arackar (meaning "skeleton" in Kunza) is an extinct genus of lithostrotian sauropod, possibly part of the Saltasauridae, discovered in the Hornitos Formation...
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    Ethnic groups of Argentina (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Argentina. In the past they spoke a language known as Kunza, to day the Kunza language is an isolate extinct language once spoken Chile, Argentina and Bolivia...
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  • Kuz may refer to: Kuz, Osmancık, a village in Çorum Province, Turkey Kunza language (ISO 639 code) All pages with titles containing Kuz This disambiguation...
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    A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu in Asia, Sandawe in Africa...
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    Peruvian Highlands Pre-Proto-Mapudungun: coast of southern Peru Pre-Proto-Kunza: sources of the Urubamba and Apurimac Rivers Pre-Proto-Uru-Chipaya: shores...
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    Aymara. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Kunza, Leko, Mapudungun, Mochika, Uru-Chipaya, Zaparo, Arawak, Kandoshi, Muniche...
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  • languages became extinct by the beginning of the 19th century west of Uruguay River, and around 1830 in the eastern shores of the same river. Kunza (also...
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    Socompa (category Articles containing Kunza-language text)
    either from its slopes or from its summit. The name comes from the Kunza language and may be related to socke and sokor, which mean "spring" or "arm of...
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    Kallawaya (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    well, the language also contains lexicology from the Aymara language, the Uru-Chipaya language, Spanish, the Kunza language, Tacanan languages, as well...
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    there are lexical similarities with the Kunza, Pukina, Pano, Jaqi, Kechua, Mapudungun, and Moseten-Tsimane language families due to contact. Loukotka (1968)...
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  • connection is not widely accepted.[citation needed] Kunza is now generally considered to be a language isolate. Jolkesky (2015) proposes lexical evidence...
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    Guarani. Kunza was the language of the Atacama people and is also extinct in Chile. Due to the lack of information it is considered an isolated language. Henia-Camiare...
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    Atacama people (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    region, San Pedro de Atacama. The original language of the Atacameños was the recently extinct language of Kunza. Atacameño gallery Pukará de Quitor Mummy...
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    El Tatio (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    geothermal power development in Chile. The term "tatio" comes from the Kunza language and means 'to appear', 'oven', but it has also been translated as 'grandfather'...
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    Macro-Arawakan language. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Hibito-Cholon, Jivaroan, Cahuapanan, Quechua, Kunza, Mochica, and...
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  • Diaguita (Cacán) and Kunza in a group he called "Ataguitan". Varieties classified by Loukotka (1968) as part of the Humahuaca language cluster: Humahuaca...
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    eháŋtaŋš some auxiliary verbs, such as kapíŋ, kiníča (kiníl), lakA (la), kúŋzA, phiča, ši, wačhíŋ, -yA, -khiyA Examples Škáte šni. He did not play. (enclitic)...
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    of Kawésqar. Gününa këna: Spoken by the Gününa küne or Puelche people. Kunza: Spoken by the Atacameño people around San Pedro de Atacama. It disappeared...
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  • Tilocálar (category Articles containing Kunza-language text)
    archeological phase named after that area. The string Tilo is of Atacameno language origin. Variously given as four or two individual volcanoes, about 3.5...
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  • Cerro Tuzgle (category Articles containing Kunza-language text)
    name, which is also rendered as Tujle, Tugle or Tugler, comes from the Kunza language; it means "knoll" and refers to the shape of the volcano. Cerro Tuzgle...
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    genus and the species name, "selti" meaning blue in the Kunza language (an extinct language in northern Chile and Peru). Source, News Staff / (2022-10-13)...
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