The Huilliche language (also known as Veliche and Huiliche) is an Araucanian language spoken by about 2,000 (as of 1982) ethnic Huilliche people in Chile. It is spoken in an area south of the Mapuche and from the city of Valdivia south to Chiloé Island in the nation's 10th Los Lagos Region and mountain valleys. [1] Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The Araucanian languages are an indigenous language family of central Chile and west central Argentina in South America. ... Huillice is an Araucanian language spoken in Chile. ... Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, People + Mapu, of the Land) are the original Amerindian inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. ... Chiloé Island Location of Chiloé in Chile Chiloé Island (Spanish: Isla de Chiloé), also known as Isla Grande de Chiloé Big Island of Chiloé, is a South American island off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean. ... Los Lagos (Spanish The lakes) is Chiles tenth administrative region from north to south. ...

Huilliche has a dialect called Tsesungún. Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche, is closely related to Huilliche but they are barely understandable to each other. Most Huilliche-speakers are older adults and the language is in decline. Most ethnic Huilliche people currently speak Spanish as their first language. [2] Tsesungún is a dialect of Huilliche, an Araucanian language spoken in Chile. ... Mapudungun test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator Mapudungun (mapu means earth and dungun means to speak) is a language isolate spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche (mapu is earth and che means people) people. ... Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, People + Mapu, of the Land) are the original Amerindian inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. ...

External links

• Ethnologue
• SIL International