Chono language

Chono
Native toChile
RegionChonos Archipelago, Chiloé Archipelago
EthnicityChono people
Extinct1875[citation needed]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologchon1248

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]

  1. ^ Doctrina para los viejos chonos (published in Bausani 1975)
  2. ^ Ibar Bruce, Jorge (1960). "Ensayo sobre los indios Chonos e interpretación de sus toponimías". Anales de la Universidad de Chile (in Spanish). 117: 61–70.