Yahgan or Yagán (also spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan, and also known as Yámana, Háusi Kúta, or Yágankuta) is an extinct language that is one of the indigenous...
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the last full-blooded Yahgan and last native speaker of the Yahgan language. It is now regarded as an extinct language. Most Yahgan now speak Spanish.[citation...
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Cristina Calderón (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
Acuña were the only two remaining native speakers of the Yahgan language, an indigenous language in Tierra del Fuego. Calderón was born in Robalo, Puerto...
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Fuegians (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
distinct languages: both the Kawésqar language and the Yahgan language are considered language isolates, while the Selk'nam and Haush spoke Chon languages like...
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mining company operating in South and Central America Yahgan people in Chile and Argentina Yahgan language This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Selk'nam language, while haush means kelp in the Yahgan language. Since the Selk'nam probably met the Yahgan people primarily in Haush territory, Furlong...
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Kawésqar (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
"mussel eater" in the Yahgan language).[citation needed] Their own name for themselves (autonym) is Kawésqar. Like the Yahgan in southern Chile and Argentina...
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Wollaston Islands (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
Hyde Wollaston. The indigenous name in the Yahgan language was Yachkusin, "place of islands". The Yahgan lived throughout central Tierra del Fuego to...
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Keppel Island (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
Anglican missionary who started there in 1871, having already learned the Yahgan language while on Keppel Island. He became fluent, and over a decade, wrote...
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by the YMCA that allows youth to serve in model governments Yahgan language, a language spoken in Chile and Argentina, by ISO 639 code Cansu Yağ (born...
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Tierra del Fuego (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
Mamihlapinatapai The Voyage of the Beagle Tierra del Fuego National Park Yahgan language There is no direct evidence that the name Tierra del Fuego was given...
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Thomas Bridges (missionary) (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
They made contact with the Yahgan, who received them well after learning that the white man Bridges could speak their languages. Stirling encouraged the...
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Mura-Matanawi, Jirajira, Yunca, Atacameno, Itonama Andean-Equatorial Andean Ona, Yahgan, Alacaluf, Tehuelche, Puelche, Araucanian Quechua, Aymara Zaparoan Omurano...
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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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extinct language is a language with no living descendants that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers. In contrast, a dead language is...
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from Chonan languages: Ona, Haush and Tehuelche; and also vocabulary from the unrelated Yahgan (Yámana). List of endangered languages Languages of Argentina...
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American languages, mostly language isolates (Haida, Trumai, Wappo) and the Oto-Manguean family are known for normally using subject pronouns. Yahgan, an extinct...
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The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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Hermite Islands (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
Islands Native name: Islas Hermite or L'Hermite Nickname: Samajani (Yahgan Language) The best known of the islands, Cape Horn Hermite Islands Geography...
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extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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referred to as Yahgan or Yámana, among other names) is a language historically spoken in Chile and Argentina. It is considered a language isolate and part...
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Sechura Sensi Tabancale Tallán Tequiraca Yameo Kunza (Argentina & Chile) Yahgan (Argentina & Chile) Pawishiana Charrúa Güenoa Anauyá Betoi Cumanagoto Mainatari...
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Xíbaro (Shiwora, Shuara) Xiraxara Yahgan Yaruro Yunka Yurakáre Yuri Záparo Je (Ge) Classification of South American languages by J. Alden Mason (1950): Čestmír...
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city's name roughly translates to "cove with a beautiful view" in the Yahgan language, where "Wulaia" means "beautiful view" and "Caleta" means "cove" or...
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Selk'nam people (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
(Shilknum); the Yahgan people called them Ona. Charles W. Furlong recorded their endonym as "Shilk'e'num" and "Ch'on". Kawésqar Kawésqar language "Censo Nacional...
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Dawson Island (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
(they were called the Alcalufe by the Yahgan and the Europeans adopted that term). They lived west of the Yahgan and throughout the islands west of Tierra...
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Y Wladfa (category Articles containing Welsh-language text)
settlements. Indigenous peoples of Patagonia include the Tehuelche and the Yahgan.[citation needed] Between 1856 and 1875, 34 settlements of immigrants of...
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Puerto Williams (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
where lucrative Lithodes santolla fishing is an important industry. The Yahgan people, indigenous to southern Chile, are believed to have migrated to this...
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Fuegian dog (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
The Fuegian dog, or Yahgan dog, or Patagonian dog (Spanish: perro fueguino, perro yagán, perro patagónico), is an extinct type of canid. Its ancestry is...
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