Chono | |
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Native to | Chile |
Region | Chonos Archipelago, Chiloé Archipelago |
Ethnicity | Chono people |
Extinct | 1875[citation needed] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | chon1248 |
Chono is a poorly attested extinct language of confusing classification. It is attested primarily from an 18th-century catechism,[1] which is not translated into Spanish.
Various placenames in Chiloé Archipelago have Chono etymologies, despite the main indigenous language of the archipelago at the arrival of the Spanish being Veliche.[2]