Araucanian (also Mapudungu) is an indigenous language family of central Chile and west central Argentina in South America. Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...

Two Araucanian languages are still spoken. The most widely spoken is Mapudungun (also Araucano, Mapuche), the language of the Mapuche people. There are an estimated 240,000 active users of the language, 200,000 in Chile and 40,000 in Argentina. Mapudungun is an Araucanian language spoken in Chile and Argentina by the Mapuche people. ... The Mapuche are the pre-Hispanic inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Argentina. ...

Huillice (also Huilliche, Veliche) has several thousand speakers, most of whom speak Spanish as a first language, south of the Mapuche in Chile's Valdivian Coastal Range and on Chiloé Island. Huillice is an Araucanian language spoken in Chile. ... The Valdivian Coastal Range is a geographical region of southern Chile, along the Pacific coast. ... Chiloé Island Location of Chiloé in Chile Chiloé Island (Spanish: Isla de Chiloé, or Isla Grande de Chiloé [Big Island of Chiloé]) is an island off the Pacific coast of South America, part of Chile. ...

Campbell (1997) treats these as dialects of the same language.

Bibliography

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).