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{{short description|Araucanian language}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Mapuche
| altname          = Mapudungun, Chilidúgu,<ref>{{cite web |author1=Bernardo de Havestadt |title=Cancionero Chilidungu |url=https://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-96287.html |access-date=9 December 2024 |language=es |date=1777}}</ref> Chedungun
| nativename       = {{lang|arn|Mapudungun}}
| states           = [[Chile]], [[Argentina]]
| nation           = [[Galvarino, Chile|Galvarino]] ([[Chile]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biobiochile.cl/2013/08/07/galvarino-es-la-primera-comuna-de-chile-en-establecer-el-mapudungun-como-su-idioma-oficial.shtml|access-date=21 September 2015|date=7 August 2013|language=es|title=Galvarino es la primera comuna de Chile en establecer el mapudungún como su idioma oficial|website=[[Radio Bío-Bío]]|archive-date=22 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922034628/http://www.biobiochile.cl/2013/08/07/galvarino-es-la-primera-comuna-de-chile-en-establecer-el-mapudungun-como-su-idioma-oficial.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref><br />[[Padre Las Casas, Chile|Padre Las Casas]] ([[Chile]])<br />[[Temuco]] ([[Chile]])
| ethnicity        = 1,718,000 [[Mapuche people|Mapuche]]<ref name=e24/>
| speakers         = {{sigfig|258,410|2}}
| date             = 2007
| ref              = e24
| familycolor      = American
| fam1             = [[Araucanian languages|Araucanian]]
| iso2             = arn
| iso3             = arn
| glotto           = mapu1245
| glottorefname    = Mapudungun
| map              = Idioma mapuche.jpg
| mapcaption       = {{legend|dodgerblue|Majority}}
{{legend|lightblue|Minority}}
| notice           = IPA
| imagecaption     = A Mapudungun speaker.
| image            = WIKITONGUES- Victor speaking Mapudungun.webm
}}
{{infobox ethnonym|root=mapu<br/><small>"land"</small>|person=|people=[[Mapuche]]|language=Mapudungun|country=[[Wallmapu]]}}'''Mapuche''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|p|uː|tʃ|i}} {{respell|mə|POO|che}},<ref>{{OED|Mapuche}}</ref> {{IPA|es|maˈputʃe|label=Mapuche and Spanish:}}; from {{lang|arn|mapu}} 'land' and {{lang|arn|che}} 'people', meaning 'the people of the land') or '''Mapudungun'''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hernández S. |first1=Arturo |title=Mapuche: Lengua y Cultura |last2=Ramos P. |first2=Nelly |publisher=Pehuén |year=1997 |isbn=978-956-16-0769-9 |pages=13 |translator-last=Vergara C. |translator-first=Luis |translator-last2=Merino |translator-first2=María Eugenia |translator-last3=Garbarini |translator-first3=Carmen |translator-last4=Barne |translator-first4=William}}</ref><ref name=HegBer2013>{{Cite book
| last1  = Heggarty
| first1 = P.
| last2  = Beresford-Jones
| first2 = D.
|editor-first1=I. 
|editor-last1=Ness
|editor-first2=Bellwood 
|editor-last2=P.
|chapter= Andes: linguistic history.
| title   = The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
| pages   = 401–409
| year    = 2013
|publisher= Wiley-Blackwell
| location= Oxford
}}</ref> (from {{lang|arn|mapu}} 'land' and {{lang|arn|dungun}} 'speak, speech', meaning 'the speech of the land'; also spelled '''Mapuzugun''' and '''Mapudungu''') is either a [[language isolate]] or member of the small [[Araucanian languages|Araucanian family]] related to [[Huilliche language|Huilliche]]<ref name=Grondona>{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Lyle |last2=Grondona |first2=Verónica |title=The Indigenous Languages of South America |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |date=2012 |page=97 |url=https://amerindias.github.io/referencias/camgro12southamerica.pdf |access-date=16 June 2025 |isbn= 978-3-11-025513-3}}</ref><ref name="Zúñiga" /> spoken in south-central [[Chile]] and west-central [[Argentina]] by the [[Mapuche]] people. It was formerly known as '''Araucanian''',<ref name=HegBer2013/> the name given to the Mapuche by the Spanish; the Mapuche avoid it as a remnant of [[Colonial Chile|Spanish colonialism]].

Mapudungun is not an official language of Chile and Argentina, having received virtually no government support throughout its history.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013}} However, since 2013, Mapuche, along with Spanish, has been granted the status of an official language by the local government of [[Galvarino, Chile|Galvarino]], one of the many [[communes of Chile]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-06-30 |title=Chile agrees to official status for Mapudungun language at the local level |work=Nationalia |url=https://www.nationalia.info/new/10305/chile-agrees-to-official-status-for-mapudungun-language-at-the-local-level |access-date=2023-07-26 |archive-date=2023-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022084841/https://www.nationalia.info/new/10305/chile-agrees-to-official-status-for-mapudungun-language-at-the-local-level |url-status=live }}</ref> It is not used as a language of instruction in either country's educational system despite the Chilean government's commitment to provide full access to education in Mapuche areas in southern Chile. There is an ongoing political debate over which alphabet to use as the standard alphabet of written Mapudungun.

In 1982, it was estimated that there were 202,000 Mapuche speakers in Chile, including those that speak the [[Pehuenche]] and [[Huilliche]] dialects, and another 100,000 speakers in Argentina as of the year 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mapudungun - Memoria Chilena |url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-3594.html |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=Memoria Chilena: Portal |language=es |archive-date=2022-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130063405/http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-3594.html |url-status=live }}</ref> However, a 2002 study suggests that only 16% of those who identify as Mapuche speak the language (active speakers) and 18% can only understand it ([[Passive speaker (language)|passive speakers]]). These figures suggest that the total number of active speakers is about 120,000 and that there are slightly more passive speakers of Mapuche in Chile.<ref name="Zúñiga">{{cite book |title=Mapudungun. El habla mapuche|last=Zúñiga|first=Fernando|author-link=Fernando Zúñiga|publisher=Centro de Estudios Públicos|location=Santiago|pages=43–47|year=2006|isbn=956-7015-40-6}}</ref> As of 2013 only 2.4% of urban speakers and 16% of rural speakers use Mapudungun when speaking with children, and only 3.8% of speakers aged 10–19 years in the south of Chile (the language's stronghold) are "highly competent" in the language.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=88}}

Speakers of [[Chilean Spanish]] who also speak Mapudungun tend to use more [[One (pronoun)|impersonal pronouns]] when speaking Spanish.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=La expresión de impersonalidad en el español de Chile|date=2009|volume=13|journal=Cuadernos de lingüística hispánica|last=Hurtado Cubillos|first=Luz Marcela|pages=31–42|language=es}}</ref> In [[Cautín Province]] and [[Llifén]] contact with Mapuche language may be the reason why there is a lack of ''[[yeísmo]]'' among some Spanish speakers.<ref name=Estudios>{{Cite journal |title=Geografía de la "ll" en Chile |journal=[[Estudios Filológicos]] |last=Wagner |first=Claudio |url=https://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0071-17132003003800012 |volume=38 |pages=188–200|year=2003 |last2=Rosas |first2=Claudia}}</ref> The language has also influenced the Spanish lexicon within the areas in which it is spoken and has also incorporated [[loanwords]] from both [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Quechuan languages|Quechua]].

==Name==
Depending on the alphabet, the sound {{IPA|/tʃ/}} is spelled {{angbr|ch}} or {{angbr|c}}, and {{IPA|/ŋ/}} as {{angbr|g}} or {{angbr|ng}}. The language is called either the "speech (''{{IPA|d/zuŋun}}'') of the land (''{{IPA|mapu}}'')"  or the "speech of the people (''{{IPA|tʃe}}'')". An {{angbr|n}} may connect the two words. There are thus several ways to write the name of the language:

{| class="wikitable"
! Alphabet
! Mapu-
! Mapu with n
! Che-/Ce-
|-
| Ragileo
| Mapuzugun<ref>[[La Nacion (Chile)]] {{cite web |url=http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20041110/pags/20041110191414.html |title=Nacion.cl - Notukawün ñi wirintukugeam ta mapunzugun (Mapunzugun: La pugna por el alfabeto mapuche) |access-date=2009-11-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803223413/http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20041110/pags/20041110191414.html |archive-date=2012-08-03 }}</ref>
| Mapunzugun
| Cezugun
|-
| Unified || Mapudungun || Mapundungun || Chedungun
|-
| Nhewenh || Mapusdugun || Mapunsdugun || Cesdugun
|-
| Azümchefe || Mapuzugun || Mapunzugun || Chezugun
|-
| Wirizüŋun || Mapuzüŋun || Mapunzüŋun || Chezüŋun
|}

== Classification and history ==
[[File:Mapudungun.jpg|thumb| Chilean [[proverb]] written in Mapuche and [[Chilean Spanish]]. The [[Mapudungun alphabet]] used here does not reflect an agreed-upon standard. In fact, there are three distinct alphabets currently used to write the Mapuche language.<ref>{{cite book |last=Montrul |first=Silvina |title=El Bilinguismo En El Mundo Hispanohablante |date=2013 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] Inc |location=Hoboken |page=249 |language=es}}</ref>]]

There is no consensus among experts regarding the relation between Mapuche and other indigenous languages of [[South America]]<ref name="Fabre">{{cite book |last=Fabre |first=Alain |url=http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~fabre/BookInternetVersio/Dic=Mapuche.pdf |title=Diccionario etnolingüíntico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos |year=2005 |language=es |chapter=Mapuche |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070212010034/http://butler.cc.tut.fi/~fabre/BookInternetVersio/Dic%3DMapuche.pdf |archive-date=12 February 2007}}</ref> and it is classified as a [[language isolate]], or more conservatively, an [[unclassified language]] while researchers await more definitive evidence linking it to other languages.<ref name="Zúñiga" />

The origin of Mapuche is a historically debated topic and hypotheses have changed over time.<ref name="Zúñiga" /> In a 1970 publication, Stark argued that Mapuche is related to [[Mayan languages]] of [[Mesoamerica]]. The following year, Hamp adopted this same hypothesis. Stark later argued in 1973 that Mapuche descended from a language known as 'Yucha' which is a sister of [[Proto-Mayan language]] and a predecessor of the [[Chimuan languages]], which hail from the northern coast of [[Peru]], and Uru-Chipaya ([[Uru language|Uruquilla]] and [[Chipaya language|Chipaya]]) languages, which are spoken by those who currently inhabit the islands of Lake [[Titicaca]] and peoples living in [[Oruro Department]] in [[Bolivia]], respectively. This hypothesis was later rejected by Campbell in the same year.

The research carried out by Mary R. Key in 1978 considered Mapuche to be related to other [[languages of Chile]]: specifically Kawésgar language and Yagán language which were both spoken by nomadic canoer communities from the [[Zona Austral]] and also with [[Chonan languages]] of [[Patagonia]], some of which are now extinct.  However, according to Key, there is a closer relation still between Mapuche and the [[Pano-Tacanan languages]] from Bolivia and Peru, a connection also made by Loos in 1973. Key also argued that there is a link to two Bolivian language isolates: the [[Chimane language|Mosetén]] and [[Yuracaré language]]s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Key |first=Mary Ritchie |url=https://www.pueblos-originarios.ucb.edu.bo/digital/106001836.pdf |title=The History and Distribution of the Indigenous Languages of Bolivia |date=1978 |publisher=Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society |location=Los Angeles, United States |access-date=2021-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005151327/https://www.pueblos-originarios.ucb.edu.bo/digital/106001836.pdf |archive-date=2021-10-05 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1987, [[Joseph Greenberg]], a linguist from the United States, proposed a system of classification of the many indigenous languages of the Americas in which the Amerindian language family would include the large majority of languages found on the South American continent, which were formerly grouped in distinct families.<ref>{{cite book |last=Greenberg |first=Joseph H. |author-link=Joseph H. Greenberg |title=Language in the Americas |publisher=[[Stanford University Press]] |year=1987 |isbn=0-8047-1315-4 |location=Stanford |id=456 p.}}</ref> The only families that fell outside of his framework were the [[Eskimo–Aleut languages]] and [[Na-Dene languages]]. According to this classification, Mapuche would be considered part of the Andean language family, within the Meridional subgroup which also includes the Kawésgar language, the [[Puelche language]], the [[Tehuelche language]] and the Yagán language. To Greenberg, Araucano isn't an individual language, but rather a subgroup composed of four languages: Araucano, Mapuche, Moluche, and Pehuenche.<ref name="Zúñiga" /> However, the comparative methods employed by Greenberg are controversial.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bolnick |first1=Deborah |author2=Beth Shook |author3=Lyle Campbell  |author4=Ives Goddard |year=2004 |title=Problematic Use of Greenberg's Linguistic Classification of the Americas in Studies of Native American Genetic Variation |journal=[[American Journal of Human Genetics]] |volume=75 |issue=3 |pages=519–523 |doi=10.1086/423452 |pmc=1182033 |pmid=15284953 |id=75(3): 519–523.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Ringe |first=Don |year=1999 |title=How hard is it to match CVC-roots? |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-968X.00049 |url-status=live |journal=Transactions of the Philological Society |location=Transactions of the Philological Society |volume=97 |issue=2 |pages=213–244 |doi=10.1111/1467-968X.00049 |id=97 (2), 213–244. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005200831/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-968X.00049 |archive-date=2021-10-05 |access-date=2021-11-09|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 1994, Viegas Barros directly contradicted Greenberg's hypothesis and part of Key's, arguing that a connection between the Merindonal subgroup mentioned above and the Mapuche language does not exist.<ref>Viegas Barros, J. Pedro (1994). La clasificación de las lenguas patagónicas. Revisión de hipótesis del grupo lingüístico "andino meridional" de Joseph H. Greenberg. CINA 15:167:184.</ref> Current linguists reject Greenberg's findings due to methodological concerns and opt instead for more conservative methods of classification.<ref name="Zúñiga" /> Moreover, many linguists do not accept the existence of an Amerindian language family due to the lack of available information needed to confirm it.

Other authorities such as [[SIL International]] classify Mapuche as one of the two languages that form that Araucana family along with Huilliche.<ref>{{cite web |year=2005 |editor-last=Gordon |editor-first=Raymond G. Jr. |title=Ethnologue report for Araucanian |url=http://www.ethnologue.org/show_family.asp?subid=91394 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213091042/http://www.ethnologue.org/show_family.asp?subid=91394 |archive-date=2007-02-13 |access-date=2021-11-09 |work=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |publisher=SIL Publications |pages=1272 |language=en |format=Online |edition=15th}}</ref> However, most current linguists maintain a more conservative stance, classifying Mapuche as a language that remains separated from other indigenous languages of South America while its differences and similarities to them are being studied.<ref name="Zúñiga" />

== History ==
{{see also|Mapuche history}}

===Prehistory===
Moulian ''et al.'' (2015) argue that the [[Puquina language]] influenced Mapuche language long before the rise of the [[Inca Empire]].<ref name=Moulianetal2015>{{cite journal |last1=Moulian |first1=Rodrígo |last2=Catrileo |first2=María |last3=Landeo |first3=Pablo |author-link2=María Catrileo |date=2015 |title=Afines quechua en el vocabulario mapuche de Luis de Valdivia |trans-title=Akins Quechua words in the Mapuche vocabulary of Luis de Valdivia |url=https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-48832015000200004&script=sci_arttext |journal=[[Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada]] |volume=53 |issue=2 |pages=73–96 |doi=10.4067/S0718-48832015000200004 |access-date=January 13, 2019 |language=es |doi-access=free |archive-date=December 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210091503/https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-48832015000200004&script=sci_arttext |url-status=live }}</ref> The influence of Puquine is thought to be the reason for the existence of Mapuche-Aymara-Quechua [[cognate]]s.<ref name=Moulianetal2015/> The following Pre-Incan cognates have been identified by Moulian ''et al.'': sun ({{langx|arn|antü}}, {{langx|qu|inti}}), moon ({{langx|arn|küllen}}, {{langx|qu|killa}}), warlock ({{langx|arn|kalku}}, {{langx|qu|kawchu}}), salt ({{langx|arn|chadi}}, {{langx|qu|cachi}}) and mother ({{langx|arn|ñuque}}, {{langx|qu|ñuñu}}).<ref name=Moulianetal2015/> This [[areal feature|areal]] linguistic influence may have arrived with a migratory wave arising from the collapse of the [[Tiwanaku empire|Tiwanaku Empire]] around 1000 CE.<ref name=Moulianetal2015/><ref>[[Tom Dillehay|Dillehay, Tom D.]]; [[Mario Pino Quivira|Pino Quivira, Mario]]; Bonzani, Renée; Silva, Claudia; Wallner, Johannes; Le Quesne, Carlos (2007) [http://www.dendrocronologia.cl/pubs/2007_Dillehay(AncientCultivatedWetlands).pdf Cultivated wetlands and emerging complexity in south-central Chile and long distance effects of climate change] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811175820/http://www.dendrocronologia.cl/pubs/2007_Dillehay(AncientCultivatedWetlands).pdf |date=2017-08-11 }}. ''[[Antiquity (journal)|Antiquity]]'' 81 (2007): 949–960</ref>

There is a more recent lexical influence from the [[Quechuan languages]] (''pataka'' 'hundred', ''warangka'' 'thousand'), associated with the [[Inca Empire]], and from Spanish.

As result of Inca rule, there was some Mapudungun–[[Southern Quechua|Imperial Quechua]] bilingualism among the Mapuches of [[Aconcagua River|Aconcagua Valley]] at the time of the arrival of the Spanish in the 1530s and 1540s.{{sfnp|Téllez|2008|p=43}}

The discovery of many [[Chono language|Chono toponyms]] in [[Chiloé Archipelago]], where [[Huilliche language|Huilliche]], a language closely related to Mapudungun, has been dominant, suggest that Mapudungun displaced Chono there prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the mid-16th century.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ibar Bruce |first1=Jorge |date=1960 |title=Ensayo sobre los indios Chonos e interpretación de sus toponimías |journal=[[Anales de la Universidad de Chile]] |volume=117 |pages=61–70 |url=https://semanariorepublicano.uchile.cl/index.php/ANUC/article/download/19032/20162 |access-date=2019-09-06 |archive-date=2020-08-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806142044/https://semanariorepublicano.uchile.cl/index.php/ANUC/article/download/19032/20162 |url-status=live }}</ref> A theory postulated by chronicler [[José Pérez García]] holds that the [[Cunco people|Cuncos]] settled in [[Chiloé Island]] in [[Pre-Columbian era|Pre-Hispanic]] times as consequence of a push from more northern [[Huilliche people|Huilliches]], who in turn were being displaced by [[Mapuche]]s.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Alcamán |first=Eugenio |title=Los mapuche-huilliche del Futahuillimapu septentrional: Expansión colonial, guerras internas y alianzas políticas (1750–1792) |date=1997 |journal=Revista de Historia Indígena |issue=2 |pages=29–76 |language=es |url=http://200.10.23.169/trabajados/alcaman.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228093024/http://200.10.23.169/trabajados/alcaman.pdf |archive-date=2013-12-28 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to Ramírez "more than a dozen Mapuche – [[Rapa Nui language|Rapa Nui]] [[cognate]]s have been described".<ref name=Ramirez2010>{{Cite journal |title=The Polynesian-Mapuche connection: Soft and Hard Evidence and New Ideas |journal=Rapa Nui Journal |last=Ramírez-Aliaga |first=José-Miguel |year=2010 |volume=24 |pages=29–33 |issue=1 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267330642 |access-date=2023-06-22 |archive-date=2023-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623005954/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose-Ramirez-Aliaga/publication/267330642_TRANSPACIFIC_CONTACTS_RNJ_2010/links/544b89ef0cf24b5d6c406c3a/TRANSPACIFIC-CONTACTS-RNJ-2010.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Among these are the Mapuche/Rapa Nui words ''toki''/''toki'' (axe), ''kuri''/''uri'' (black) and ''piti''/''iti'' (little).<ref name=Ramirez2010/>

===Spanish–Mapuche bilingualism in colonial times===
As the 16th and 17th century [[Central Chile]] was becoming a [[melting pot]] for uprooted indigenous peoples,<ref name=migracioneslocales>{{Cite journal|year=2016|title=Migraciones locales y asentamiento indígena en las estancias españolas de Chile central, 1580–1650|journal=[[Historia (history of the Americas journal)|Historia]]|volume=49|issue=1|doi=10.4067/S0717-71942016000100004|doi-access=free|language=es|url=https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0717-71942016000100004&script=sci_arttext#nb29|last1=Contreras Cruces|first1=Hugo|pages=87–110|access-date=2020-01-18|archive-date=2020-06-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623111950/https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0717-71942016000100004&script=sci_arttext#nb29|url-status=live}}</ref> it has been argued that Mapuche, Quechua and Spanish coexisted there, with significant bilingualism, during the 17th century.<ref name=Hernadez>{{cite journal |last1=Hernández Salles |first1=Arturo |date=1981 |title=Influencia del mapuche en el castellano |journal=[[Documentos Lingüísticos y Literarios]] |volume=7 |pages=34–44 |language=es }}</ref> However the indigenous language that has influenced [[Chilean Spanish]] the most is Quechua rather than Mapuche.<ref name=Hernadez/>

In colonial times, many Spanish and Mestizos spoke the Mapuche language. For example, in the 17th century, many soldiers at the [[Valdivian Fort System]] had some command of Mapuche.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Urbina C. |first1=María Ximena |author-link=Ximena Urbina |date=2017 |title=La expedición de John Narborough a Chile, 1670: Defensa de Valdivia, rumeros de indios, informaciones de los prisioneros y la creencia en la Ciudad de los Césares |language=es |trans-title=John Narborough expedition to Chile, 1670: Defense of Valdivia, indian rumours, information on prisoners, and the belief in the City of the Césares |journal=[[Magallania]] |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=11–36 |doi=10.4067/S0718-22442017000200011 |url=https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-22442017000200011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=es |access-date=27 December 2019 |doi-access=free |archive-date=16 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516145116/https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-22442017000200011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=es |url-status=live |hdl=10533/232318 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

During the 17th and 18th centuries, most of [[Chiloé Archipelago]]'s population was [[bilingual]], and according to [[John Byron]], many Spaniards preferred to use the local [[Huilliche language]] because they considered it "more beautiful".<ref>Byron, John. El naufragio de la fragata "Wager". 1955. Santiago: Zig-zag.</ref> Around the same time, [[Governorate of Chiloé|Governor]] [[Antonio Narciso de Santa María|Narciso de Santa María]] complained that Spanish settlers in the islands could not speak Spanish properly, but could speak Veliche, and that this second language was more used.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cárdenas A. |first1=Renato |last2=Montiel Vera |first2=Dante |last3=Grace Hall |first3=Catherine |date=1991 |title=Los chono y los veliche de Chiloé |url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0012567.pdf |location=Santiago de Chile |publisher=Olimpho |page=277 |author-link1=Renato Cárdenas |language=es |access-date=2020-01-18 |archive-date=2020-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128203435/http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0012567.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Further decline===
Mapudungun was once the main language spoken in central Chile. The sociolinguistic situation of the Mapuche has changed rapidly. Now, nearly all of Mapuche people are bilingual or monolingual in Spanish. The degree of bilingualism depends on the community, participation in Chilean society, and the individual's choice towards the traditional or modern/urban way of life.<ref name="Smeets, Ineke 2008">{{Cite book|last=Smeets |first=Ineke |year=2008 |title=A Grammar of Mapuche |publisher=Mouton de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-019558-3}}</ref>

== Language revitalization efforts ==
The Chilean Ministry of Education created the Office of Intercultural Bilingual Education in 1996 in an attempt to include indigenous language in education. By 2004, there were still no programs in public schools in Santiago, despite the fact that 50% of the country’s Mapuche population resides in and around the area of Santiago. 30.4% of Mapuche students never graduate eighth grade and they have high rates of poverty. Most language revitalization efforts have been in rural communities and these efforts have been received in different ways by the Mapuche population: Ortiz says some feel that teaching Mapudungu in schools will set their children behind other Chileans, which reveals that their culture has been devalued by the Chilean government for so long that, unfortunately, some Mapuche people have come to see their language as worthless, too, which is a direct and lasting impact of colonization.<ref>(Ortiz, Patricio R. (2009) [https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/download/196487/191594 Indigenous Knowledge and Language: Decolonizing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in a Mapuche Intercultural Bilingual Education Program in Chile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526094421/https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/download/196487/191594|date=2024-05-26}}. Canadian Journal of Indigenous Education, 32, 93–114.)</ref>
Despite the absence of Mapudungun instruction in public schools, there are limited language course offerings at select Chilean universities, such as [[Pontifical Catholic University of Chile]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=La construcción de una identidad híbrida en los escritos de Manuel Manquilef |url=https://artesycultura.uc.cl/en/creation-research/arts-projects-catalog/231-la-construccion-de-una-identidad-hibrida-en-los-escritos-de-manuel-manquilef |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415055911/https://artesycultura.uc.cl/en/creation-research/arts-projects-catalog/231-la-construccion-de-una-identidad-hibrida-en-los-escritos-de-manuel-manquilef |archive-date=April 15, 2021 |access-date=Oct 12, 2020 |website=artesycultura.uc.cl}}</ref>

==Dialects==
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[[Linguist]] Robert A. Croese divides Mapudungun into eight dialectal sub-groups (I-VIII). Sub-group I is centered in [[Arauco Province]], Sub-group II is the dialect of [[Angol]], [[Los Ángeles, Bío Bío|Los Ángeles]] and the middle and lower [[Bío Bío River]]. Sub-group III is centered around [[Purén]]. In the areas around [[Lonquimay]], [[Melipeuco]] and [[Allipén River]] dialect sub-group IV is spoken. Sub-group V is spoken at the coast of [[Araucanía Region]] including [[Queule]], [[Budi Lake]] and [[Toltén]].

Temuco is the epicenter of the Mapuche territory today.<ref name="Smeets, Ineke 2008"/> Around [[Temuco]], [[Freire, Chile|Freire]] and [[Gorbea, Chile|Gorbea]] the sub-group VI is spoken. Group VII is spoken in [[Valdivia Province]] plus [[Pucón]] and [[Curarrehue]]. The last "dialect" sub-group is VIII which is the [[Huilliche language]] spoken from [[Ranco Lake|Lago Ranco]] and [[Bueno River|Río Bueno]] to the south and is not mutually intelligible with the other dialects.<ref name=Croese1985>{{cite book |last=Croese |first=Robert A.|editor1-last=Manelis Klein |editor1-first=Harriet|editor2-last=Stark|editor2-first=Louisa R.|date=1985 |title=South American Indian Languages: Retrospect and Prospect |chapter=21. Mapuche Dialect Survey|location=Austin, Texas |publisher=University of Texas Press |pages=784–801 |isbn=0-292-77592-X}}</ref>

These can be grouped in four dialect groups: north, central, south-central and south. These are further divided into eight sub-groups: I and II (northern), III–IV (central), V-VII (south-central) and VIII (southern). The sub-groups III-VII are more closely related to each other than they are to I-II and VIII. Croese finds these relationships as consistent, but not proof, with the theory of [[origin of the Mapuche]] proposed by [[Ricardo E. Latcham]].<ref name=Croese1985/>

The Mapudungun spoken in the Argentinian provinces of Neuquen and Río Negro is similar to that of the central dialect group in Chile, while the Ranquel (Rankülche) variety spoken in the Argentinian province of La Pampa is closer to the northern dialect group.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=87}}

==Phonology==

===Prosody===
Mapudungun has partially predictable, non-contrastive stress and there is no phonemic tone. The stressed syllable is generally the last one if it is closed (''{{lang|arn|awkán}}'' 'game', ''{{lang|arn|tralkán}}'' 'thunder'), and the one before last if the last one is open ''{{lang|arn|lóngko}}'' 'head'). In two-syllable words, for example, when both [[syllable]]s are open (ending in a vowel) or both are closed (ending in a consonant), the accent falls on the final syllable. In the case that only one of the two is open, the accent falls on the closed syllable.

'''Example'''
:''iñ'''chiñ''''' 'we'
:''ru'''ká''''' 'house'

With words that have more than two syllables and have the final two either open or closed, the accent falls on the penultimate syllable. If only one of the two is closed, that one receives the accent.

'''Example'''
:''wi'''lli'''che'' '[[Huilliche language]]'
:''pichi'''wen'''tru'' 'boy'
:''wa'''rang'''ka'' 'thousand'
:''mapu'''dun'''gun'' 'Mapuche language'.

===Vowels===
[[Image:Mapudungun monophthongs chart.svg|thumb|250px|Stressed [[monophthong]]s of Mapudungun, from {{Harvcoltxt|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=92}}]]

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

|+ Vowel phonemes{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=92}}
!
! [[Front vowel|Front]]
! [[Central vowel|Central]]
! [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| {{IPA link|ɪ}}
|
| {{IPA link|ʊ}}
|-
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| {{IPA link|e}}
| {{IPA link|ɘ}}
| {{IPA link|o}}
|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
|
| {{IPA link|ɐ}}
|
|}

* Sadowsky et al. transcribe the vowels with {{angbr IPA|ɪ, ɘ, ʊ, ë, ö, ɐ̝}}.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=92}} Although other sources may follow the traditional transcription {{angbr IPA|i, ɨ, u, e, o, a}}.
* In stressed syllables, {{IPA|/ɪ, ʊ/}} are near-close {{IPA|[{{IPAplink|ɪ}}, {{IPAplink|ʊ}}]}}, whereas the mid-{{IPA|/e, o/}} are centralized close-mid {{IPA|[{{IPAplink|e|ë}}, {{IPAplink|o|ö}}]}}. The open vowel is realized as a raised open central {{IPAblink|ɐ}}, making it sound closer to {{IPAblink|ɜ}} than to {{IPAblink|ä}}. Unstressed vowels are more close {{IPA|[{{IPAplink|i}}, {{IPAplink|u}}, {{IPAplink|ɪ}}, {{IPAplink|ʊ}}, {{IPAplink|ə}}]}} (though unstressed {{IPA|/e, o/}} are still somewhat more open than stressed {{IPA|/ɪ, ʊ/}}). Utterance-final unstressed vowels are generally devoiced or even [[elision|elided]] when they occur after voiceless consonants, sometimes even after voiced consonants.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|pp=92–94}}
* Traditionally, {{IPA|/ɘ/}} has been described as a close central vowel with an unstressed mid-central allophone. According to Sadowsky et al., the vowel is close-mid {{IPAblink|ɘ}} when stressed and near-close {{IPAblink|ɨ̞}} when unstressed, patterning phonetically with the mid-series.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|pp=92–93}}

===Consonants===
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

|+ Mapuche consonant phonemes{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=88}}
! colspan="2" |
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Interdental consonant|Dental]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Postalveolar consonant|Postalveolar]]
! [[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
| ({{IPA link|n̪}})
| {{IPA link|n}}
|
|
| {{IPA link|ɲ}}
| {{IPA link|ŋ}}
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Stop consonant|Stop]]
| {{IPA link|p}}
| ({{IPA link|t̪}})
| {{IPA link|t}}
| {{IPA link|tʃ}}
| {{IPA link|ʈʂ}}
|
| {{IPA link|k}}
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
| {{IPA link|f}}
| {{IPA link|θ}}
| {{IPA link|s}}
| {{IPA link|ʃ}}
|
|
| {{IPA link|ɣ}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
! {{small|[[Central consonant|central]]}}
|
|
|
|
| {{IPA link|ɻ}}
| {{IPA link|j}}
| {{IPA link|w}}
|-
! {{small|[[Lateral consonant|lateral]]}}
|
| ({{IPA link|l̪}})
| {{IPA link|l}}
|
|
| {{IPA link|ʎ}}
|
|}

* {{IPA|/m, p/}} are [[Bilabial consonant|bilabial]], whereas {{IPA|/f/}} is [[Labiodental consonant|labiodental]].{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=88}}
* The dental series {{IPA|/n̪, t̪, l̪/}} is phonetically [[Interdental consonant|interdental]] and occurs only in some dialects.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|pp=88–89}}
* Utterance-final coronal laterals {{IPA|/l̪, l/}} may be devoiced and fricated: {{IPA|[{{IPAplink|ɬ|ɬ̪}}, {{IPAplink|ɬ}}]}}.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=91}}
* The plosives may be aspirated. It is often the case with the main allophone of {{IPA|/k/}} ({{IPAblink|k}}). Its fronted allophone {{IPAblink|c}} is less frequently aspirated, as is the alveolar {{IPA|/t/}}. When it comes to the dental {{IPA|/t̪/}} as well as the bilabial {{IPA|/p/}}, aspiration is even rarer.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=89}} For stops, voicing is not a distinctive feature, as well as aspiration.
* Some speakers realize {{IPA|/ʈʂ/}} as apical postalveolar, either an affricate or an aspirated plosive.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=91}}
* {{IPA|/ɻ/}} has been traditionally classified as an approximant; however, Sadowsky et al. prefer to classify it as a fricative {{IPAblink|ʐ}} as that is the predominant variant in their sample. Other possible variants include a lateral approximant {{IPAblink|ɭ}} and, in post-nuclear position, a voiceless fricative {{IPAblink|ʂ}}.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=90}}
* {{IPA|/j/}} may be realized with frication: {{IPAblink|ʝ}}.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|p=91}}
* Among the velar consonants, {{IPA|/w/}} is [[Labialized velar consonant|labialized]]. Before front vowels, {{IPA|/ŋ, k, ɣ/}} are fronted to {{IPA|[{{IPAplink|ŋ˖}}, {{IPAplink|c}}, {{IPAplink|ʝ|ɣ˖}}~{{IPAplink|ʝ}}]}}.{{sfnp|Sadowsky|Painequeo|Salamanca|Avelino|2013|pp=88–89}}

==Orthography==
{{Main|Mapudungun alphabet}}
[[File:Aukan kawin griffitie mapuche.jpg|thumb|240px|Graffiti in Mapudungun meaning "Uprise Meeting".]]

The Mapuche had no writing system before the Spanish arrived, but the language is now written with the Latin script. Although the [[orthography]] used in this article is based on the ''Alfabeto Mapuche Unificado'', the system used by Chilean linguists and other people in many publications in the language, the competing Ragileo, Nhewenh and Azumchefi systems all have their supporters, and there is still no consensus among authorities, linguists and Mapuche communities. The same word can look very different in each system, with the word for "conversation or story" being written either ''gvxam'', ''gytram'', or ''ngütram'', for example.<ref>[http://trekaletuan.com/2009/12/13/los-diferentes-grafemarios-y-alfabetos-del-mapudungun-raguileo-unificado-y-azumchefi/ "Los Diferentes Grafemarios y Alfabetos del Mapudungun"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210075819/http://trekaletuan.com/2009/12/13/los-diferentes-grafemarios-y-alfabetos-del-mapudungun-raguileo-unificado-y-azumchefi/ |date=2013-12-10 }}</ref>

===Microsoft legal threats===
In late 2006, Mapuche leaders threatened to sue [[Microsoft]] when the latter completed a translation of their [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] operating system into Mapudungun. They claimed that Microsoft needed permission to do so and had not sought it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/oukin-uk-chile-mapuches-microsoft-idUKN2238412220061123 |title=Chilean Mapuches in language row with Microsoft |website=uk.reuters.com |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505094312/http://uk.reuters.com/article/oukin-uk-chile-mapuches-microsoft-idUKN2238412220061123 |archive-date=5 May 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>''Guerra idiomática entre los indígenas mapuches de Chile y Microsoft''. El Mundo / Gideon Long (Reuters), 28 November 2006 [http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2006/11/24/tecnologia/1164364076.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912162013/http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2006/11/24/tecnologia/1164364076.html|date=2012-09-12}}</ref> The event can be seen in the light of the greater political struggle concerning the [[alphabet]] that should become the standard alphabet of the Mapuche people.

==Morphology==
*Mapuche is an [[agglutinative language]].<ref name="Smeets, Ineke 2008"/> The [[word order]] of Mapudungun is flexible, but a [[topic–comment]] construction is common. The subject (agent) of a transitive clause tends to precede the [[verb]], and the object tends to follow (A–V–O order); the subject of an intransitive clause tends to follow the verb (V–S order).<ref name="Smeets, Ineke 2008"/>
*[[Noun]]s are grouped in two classes, animate and inanimate. For example, ''{{lang|arn|pu}}'' is a plural indicator for animate nouns and ''{{lang|arn|yuka}}'' as the plural for inanimate nouns. ''{{lang|arn|Chi}}'' (or ''{{lang|arn|ti}}'') can be used as a definite animate article, as in ''{{lang|arn|chi wentru}}'' 'the man' and ''{{lang|arn|chi pu wentru}}'' for 'the men'. The number ''{{lang|arn|kiñe}}'' 'one' serves as an [[indefinite article]]. Subjects and objects use the same case.<ref name="wals">{{Cite web|url=https://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_map|title=WALS Online – Language Mapudungun|website=wals.info|access-date=Oct 12, 2020|archive-date=December 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205090627/https://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_map|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Mapudungu uses particles, which is a small group of morphemes that enable the speaker to express how they feel about what they have said. Examples include ''chi'' (doubt), ''am'' (surprise), ''nga'' (regret), ''llemay'' (certainty), ''chemay'' (amazement), ''chiam'' (wonder), ''amfe'' (exclamation). There are also more complicated particles such as ''kay'', which suggest the information about to be said is in contrast to what was just said. Another complex particle is ''may'', which is used when the speaker expects to get a positive reaction from what they are saying. One particle, ''anchi'', refers to the subject of the sentence, and an example would be ''"chem anchi?"'' which translates to what [is] that (pointed out)?<ref name="Smeets, Ineke 2008"/>
* "An inflection can be added to a noun with -''mew'' or -''mu''. This [[suffix]] can refer to time, place, cause or comparison.<ref name="Smeets, Ineke 2008"/> "An example of this is the sentence 
{{interlinear
| indent = 3|Mesa-mew müle-y ti mamüllü ñi müle-n mi tukupu-a-l.|table-LOC be-IND/3S.SBJ the wood POSS be-{{gcl|NOML|nominalizer}} 2S.POSS use-{{gcl|NRLD|nonrealized tense}}-{{gcl|NOML|nominalizer}}|‘On the table is the wood that you should use.’<ref>(Baker, Mark C. On the Loci of Agreement: Inversion Constructions in Mapudungu. Rutgers University)</ref>
}}
*Numbers from 1 to 10 are as follows: 1 ''{{lang|arn|kiñe}}'', 2 ''{{lang|arn|epu}}'', 3 ''{{lang|arn|küla}}'', 4 ''{{lang|arn|meli}}'', 5 ''{{lang|arn|kechu}}'', 6 ''{{lang|arn|kayu}}'', 7 ''{{lang|arn|regle}}'', 8 ''{{lang|arn|pura}}'', 9 ''{{lang|arn|aylla}}'', 10 ''{{lang|arn|mari}}''; further numbers include 20 ''{{lang|arn|epu mari}}'', 30 ''{{lang|arn|küla mari}}'', 110 ''{{lang|arn|(kiñe) pataka mari}}''.  Numbers are extremely regular in formation, which is comparable to [[Chinese numerals#Reading and transcribing numbers|Chinese]] and [[Wolof language|Wolof]].Mapuche is a [[polysynthetic language]] with noun incorporation and root composition. Broadly speaking this means that words are formed by [[morpheme]] [[agglutination]] of lexical elements to the extent that a single word can require a translation that produces a complete sentence.
{{interlinear
| number = ex:
| top = ''Trarimansunparkelayayngu''|trari- mansun- pa- rke- la- (y)- a- y- ngu|{{gcl|SURROUND|surround}}- ox- {{gcl|CIS|cislocative}}- {{gcl|SURPRISE|SURPRISE|surprise (emotion)}}- NEG- (E)- FUT- IND- {3DU}|'Those two won't yoke the oxen here!'
}}

===Pronouns===
*There are, for [[personal pronoun]]s, three [[person (grammar)|persons]] and three [[number (grammar)|numbers]]:

{| border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px gray solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%; vertical-align: center;"
| colspan=2 rowspan=2 style="background:white;border-top:2px white solid;border-right:1px solid gray;border-bottom:1px solid gray;border-left:2px white solid;"|
! colspan=3 style="background:#9FB6CD;"|<big>Number</big>
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Singular
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Dual
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Plural
|-
! rowspan=3 style="background:#9FB6CD"|<big>Person</big>
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|First
| {{lang|arn|iñche}}, 'I'
| {{lang|arn|iñchiw}}, 'we (2)'
| {{lang|arn|iñchiñ}}, 'we (more than 2)'
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Second
| {{lang|arn|eymi}}, 'you'
| {{lang|arn|eymu}}, 'you (2)'
| {{lang|arn|eymün}}, 'you (more than 2)'
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Third
| {{lang|arn|fey}}, 'he/she/it'
| {{lang|arn|feyengu}}, 'they (2)'
| {{lang|arn|feyengün}}, 'they (more than 2)'
|}

*[[Possessive pronoun]]s are related to the personal forms: ''{{lang|arn|ñi}}'' 'my; his, her; their', ''{{lang|arn|yu}}'' 'our (2)', ''{{lang|arn|iñ}}'' 'our (more than 2)'; ''{{lang|arn|mi}}'' 'your', ''{{lang|arn|mu}}'' 'your (2)', ''{{lang|arn|mün}}'' 'your (more than 2)'. They are often found with a particle ''{{lang|arn|ta}}'', which does not seem to add anything specific to the meaning: ''{{lang|arn|tami}}'' 'your'.
*Interrogative pronouns include ''{{lang|arn|iney}}'' 'who', ''{{lang|arn|chem}}'' 'what', ''{{lang|arn|chumül}}'' 'when', ''{{lang|arn|chew}}'' 'where', ''{{lang|arn|chum(ngechi)}}'' 'how' and ''{{lang|arn|chumngelu}}'' 'why'.

===Verbs===
* Most complex verb formations in Mapudungun are constructed with five or six [[morpheme]]s.<ref>Monson et al. (2004) Data Collection and Analysis of Mapudungun Morphology for Spelling Correction. Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University.</ref>
*Verbs can be finite or non-finite (non-finite endings: ''-n'', ''-el'', ''-etew'', ''-lu'', ''-am'', etc.), are intransitive or transitive and are conjugated according to person (first, second and third), number (singular, dual and plural), voice (active, agentless passive and reflexive-reciprocal, plus two applicatives) and mood (indicative, imperative and subjunctive). In the indicative, the present (zero) and future (''-(y)a'') tenses are distinguished. There are a number of aspects: the progressive, resultative and habitual are well established; some forms that seem to mark some subtype of perfect are also found. Other verb morphology includes an evidential marker (reportative-mirative), directionals (cislocative, translocative, andative and ambulative, plus an interruptive and continuous action marker) and modal markers (sudden action, faked action, immediate action, etc.). There is productive noun incorporation, and the case can be made for root compounding morphology.
*  "Spanish loan verbs have generally been adapted into Mapudungu in the third person singular form. An example is the Mapudungu verb for "to be able" is ''"pwede,"'' and the Spanish translation for "he can" is ''"puede."''<ref name="Smeets, Ineke 2008"/>

The indicative present paradigm for an intransitive verb like ''{{lang|arn|konün}}'' 'enter' is as follows:

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| colspan=2 rowspan=2 style="background:white;border-top:2px white solid;border-right:1px solid gray;border-bottom:1px solid gray;border-left:2px white solid;"|
! colspan=3 style="background:#9FB6CD;"|<big>Number</big>
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Singular
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Dual
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Plural
|-
! rowspan=3 style="background:#9FB6CD"|<big>Person</big>
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|First
|'''{{lang|arn|konün}}'''<br>( ← kon-n)
|'''{{lang|arn|koniyu}}'''<br>( ← kon-i-i-u)
|'''{{lang|arn|koniyiñ}}'''<br>( ← kon-i-i-n)
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Second
|'''{{lang|arn|konimi}}'''<br>( ← kon-i-m-i)
|'''{{lang|arn|konimu}}'''<br>( ← kon-i-m-u)
|'''{{lang|arn|konimün}}'''<br>( ← kon-i-m-n)
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Third
|'''{{lang|arn|koni}}'''<br>( ← kon-i-0-0)
|'''{{lang|arn|koningu}}'''<br>( ← kon-i-ng-u)
|'''{{lang|arn|koningün}}'''<br>( ← kon-i-ng-n)
|}

What some authors{{Citation needed|date=March 2011}} have described as an [[Direct–inverse alignment|inverse system]] (similar to the ones described for [[Algonquian languages]]) can be seen from the forms of a transitive verb like ''{{lang|arn|pen}}'' 'see'. The 'intransitive' forms are the following:
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| colspan=2 rowspan=2 style="background:white;border-top:2px white solid;border-right:1px solid gray;border-bottom:1px solid gray;border-left:2px white solid;"|
! colspan=3 style="background:#9FB6CD;"|<big>Number</big>
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Singular
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Dual
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Plural
|-
! rowspan=3 style="background:#9FB6CD"|<big>Person</big>
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|First
|'''{{lang|arn|pen}}'''<br>( ← pe-n)
|'''{{lang|arn|peyu}}'''<br>( ← pe-i-i-u)
|'''{{lang|arn|peiñ}}'''<br>( ← pe-i-i-n)
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Second
|'''{{lang|arn|peymi}}'''<br>( ← pe-i-m-i)
|'''{{lang|arn|peymu}}'''<br>( ← pe-i-m-u)
|'''{{lang|arn|peymün}}'''<br>( ← pe-i-m-n)
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Third
|'''{{lang|arn|pey}}'''<br>( ← pe-i-0-0)
|'''{{lang|arn|peyngu}}'''<br>( ← pe-i-ng-u)
|'''{{lang|arn|peyngün}}'''<br>( ← pe-i-ng-n)
|}

The 'transitive' forms are the following (only singular forms are provided here):
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| colspan=2 rowspan=2 style="background:white;border-top:2px white solid;border-right:1px solid gray;border-bottom:1px solid gray;border-left:2px white solid;"|
! colspan=3 style="background:#9FB6CD;"|<big>Agent</big>
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|First
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Second
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Third
|-
! rowspan=5 style="background:#9FB6CD"|<big>Patient</big>
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|First
|'''{{lang|arn|pewün}}'''<br>( ← pe-w-n)
|'''{{lang|arn|peen}}'''<br>( ← pe-e-n)
|'''{{lang|arn|peenew}}'''<br>( ← pe-e-n-mew)
|-
! style="background:#B9D3EE"|Second
|'''{{lang|arn|peeyu}}'''<br>( ← pe-e-i-u)
|'''{{lang|arn|pewimu}}'''<br>( ← pe-w-i-m-u)
|'''{{lang|arn|peeymew}}'''<br>( ← pe-e-i-m-i-mew)
|-
! rowspan=3 style="background:#B9D3EE"|Third
| rowspan=3 | '''{{lang|arn|pefiñ}}'''<br>( ← pe-fi-n)
| rowspan=3 | '''{{lang|arn|pefimi}}'''<br>( ← pe-fi-i-m-i)
|{{gcl|DIR|direct}} '''{{lang|arn|pefi}}'''<br>( ← pe-fi-i-0-0)
|-
|{{gcl|INV}} '''{{lang|arn|peeyew}}'''<br>( ← pe-e-i-0-0-mew)
|-
|{{gcl|REFL}} '''{{lang|arn|pewi}}'''<br>( ← pe-w-i-0-0)
|}

When a third person interacts with a first or second person, the forms are direct (without ''-e'') or inverse (with ''-e''); the speaker has no choice. When two third persons interact, two different forms are available. The direct form (''{{lang|arn|pefi}}'') is appropriate when the agent is topical (the central figure in that particular passage). By contrast, the inverse form (''{{lang|arn|peenew}}'') is appropriate when the patient is topical. Thus, ''{{lang|arn|chi wentru pefi chi domo}}'' means 'the man saw the woman', while ''{{lang|arn|chi wentru peeyew chi domo}}'' means something like 'the man was seen by the woman'. However, it is not a passive construction; the passive would be ''{{lang|arn|chi wentru pengey}}'' 'the man was seen/someone saw the man'. Therefore, a better translation may be 'it was the woman who saw the man' or 'the woman was the one who saw the man'.

==Studies==
===Older works===
The formalization and normalization of Mapudungun was effected by the first Mapudungun grammar published by the Jesuit priest [[Luis de Valdivia]] in 1606 (''Arte y Gramatica General de la Lengva que Corre en Todo el Reyno de Chile''). More important is the ''Arte de la Lengua General del Reyno de Chile'' by the Jesuit [[Andrés Fabrés]] (1765, Lima) composed of a grammar and dictionary. In 1776 three volumes in Latin were published in [[Westphalia]] (''Chilidúgú sive Res Chilenses'') by the German Jesuit [[Bernhard Havestadt]].

The work by Febrés was used as a basic preparation from 1810 for missionary priests going into the regions occupied by the Mapuche people. A corrected version was completed in 1846 and a summary, without a dictionary in 1864.

A work based on Febrés' book is the ''Breve Metodo della Lingua Araucana y Dizionario Italo-Araucano e Viceversa'' by the Italian [[Octaviano de Niza]] in 1888. It was destroyed in a fire at the Convento de San Francisco in [[Valdivia]] in 1928.

===Modern works===
The most comprehensive works to date are the ones by Augusta (1903, 1916). Salas (1992, 2006) is an introduction for non-specialists, featuring an ethnographic introduction and a valuable text collection as well. Zúñiga (2006) includes a complete grammatical description, a bilingual dictionary, some texts and an audio CD with text recordings (educational material, a traditional folktale and six contemporary poems). Smeets (1989) and Zúñiga (2000) are for specialists only. Fernández-Garay (2005) introduces both the language and the culture. Catrileo (1995) and the dictionaries by Hernández & Ramos are trilingual (Spanish, English and Mapudungun).

* ''Gramática mapuche bilingüe'', by [[Félix José de Augusta]], Santiago, 1903. [1990 reprint by Séneca, Santiago.]
* ''Idioma mapuche'', by [[Ernesto Wilhelm de Moesbach]], Padre Las Casas, Chile: San Francisco, 1962.
* ''El mapuche o araucano. Fonología, gramática y antología de cuentos'', by [[Adalberto Salas]], Madrid: MAPFRE, 1992.
* ''El mapuche o araucano. Fonología, gramática y antología de cuentos'', by Adalberto Salas, edited by [[Fernando Zúñiga]], Santiago: [[Centro de Estudios Públicos]], 2006. [2nd (revised) edition of Salas 1992.] {{ISBN|956-7015-41-4}}
* ''A Mapuche grammar'', by [[Ineke Smeets]], Ph.D. dissertation, Leiden University, 1989.
* ''Mapudungun'', by [[Fernando Zúñiga]], Munich: Lincom Europa, 2000. {{ISBN|3-89586-976-7}}
* ''Parlons Mapuche: La langue des Araucans'', by [[Ana Fernández-Garay]]. Editions L'Harmattan, 2005, {{ISBN|2-7475-9237-5}}
* ''Mapudungun: El habla mapuche. Introducción a la lengua mapuche, con notas comparativas y un CD'', by [[Fernando Zúñiga]], Santiago: Centro de Estudios Públicos, 2006. {{ISBN|956-7015-40-6}}
* ''A Grammar of Mapuche'', by [[Ineke Smeets]]. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. {{ISBN|978-3-11-019558-3}}

====Dictionaries====
* [[Félix José de Augusta]], ''Diccionario araucano'', Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria, 1916 ([https://archive.org/details/diccionarioarauc01fluoft/page/n6 Tomo primero] ; [https://archive.org/details/diccionarioarauc02fluoft/page/n8 Tomo segundo]) [1996 reprint by Cerro Manquehue, Santiago.] {{ISBN|956-7210-17-9}}*
* [[María Catrileo]], ''Diccionario lingüístico-etnográfico de la lengua mapuche. Mapudungun-español-English'', Santiago: Andrés Bello, 1995.
* [[Esteban Erize]], ''Diccionario comentado mapuche-español'', Bahía Blanca: Yepun, 1960.
* [[Ana Fernández Garay]], ''Ranquel-español/español-ranquel. Diccionario de una variedad mapuche de la Pampa (Argentina)'', Leiden: CNWS (Leiden University), 2001. {{ISBN|90-5789-058-5}}
* Arturo Hernández and [[Nelly Ramos]], ''Diccionario ilustrado mapudungun-español-inglés'', Santiago: Pehuén, 1997.
* Arturo Hernández and Nelly Ramos, ''Mapuche: lengua y cultura. Mapudungun-español-inglés'', Santiago: Pehuén, 2005. [5th (augmented) edition of their 1997 dictionary.]
* Muñoz Urrutia, Rafael, ed. (2006). ''Diccionario Mapuche: Mapudungun/Español, Español/Mapudungun'' (2ª edición). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Centro Gráfico Ltda. {{ISBN|956-8287-99-X}}.

====Mapudungun language courses====
* ''Mapudunguyu 1. Curso de lengua mapuche'', by [[María Catrileo]], Valdivia: [[Universidad Austral de Chile]], 2002.
* ''Manual de aprendizaje del idioma mapuche: Aspectos morfológicos y sintácticos'', by [[Bryan Harmelink]], Temuco: [[Universidad de la Frontera]], 1996. {{ISBN|956-236-077-6}}
* ''EH2518 Introducción a la lengua y cultura Mapuche'', Santago [[Universidad de Chile]], 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ucampus.uchile.cl/m/fcfm_catalogo/programa?bajar=1&id=54162 |format=PDF |title=EH2518 Introducción a la lengua y cultura Mapuche |language=es  |trans-title=Introduction to mapuche language and culture |website=ucampus.uchile.cl |publisher=[[University of Chile]]}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Mapudungun placenames]]
*[[María Catrileo]]

== Further reading ==
{{refbegin}}
*{{Cite JIPA |last1=Sadowsky |first1=Scott |last2=Painequeo |first2=Héctor |last3=Salamanca |first3=Gastón |last4=Avelino |first4=Heriberto |title=Mapudungun |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=87&ndash;96 |doi=10.1017/S0025100312000369 |printdate=2013-04 |soundfiles=yes}}
{{refend}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Bibliography==
{{refbegin}}
* Aprueban alfabeto mapuche único (Oct 19, 1999). ''El Mercurio de Santiago''.
* Campbell, Lyle (1997) ''American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America''. New York: [[Oxford University Press]]. {{ISBN|0-19-509427-1}}.
* Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (2005) ''Encuesta Complementaria de Pueblos Indígenas (ECPI), 2004–2005 – Primeros resultados provisionales''. Buenos Aires: INDEC. ISSN 0327-7968.
* {{citation
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|first2=Héctor
|last3=Salamanca
|first3=Gastón
|last4=Avelino
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|year=2013
|title=Mapudungun
|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association
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|volume=43
|issue=1
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*{{cite book |last=Téllez |first=Eduardo |title=Los Diaguitas: Estudios |year=2008 |publisher=Ediciones Akhilleus |location=[[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]], Chile |isbn=978-956-8762-00-1 |language=es}}<!--|access-date=August 27, 2019 -->
{{refend}}

==External links==
{{Incubator|code= arn|lang=Mapudungun}}{{Incubator|arn|lang=Mapudungun|wiktionary}}{{wikibooks|Mapudungun}}
{{Commons category|Mapudungun language}}{{wiktionary|Category:Mapudungun language}}
*[https://soundcomparisons.com/#/en/Mapudungun/map//Lgs_Sln Sound Comparisons: Mapudungun] containing audio recordings and phonetic transcriptions of 37 regional varieties of Mapudungun.
*[http://wold.clld.org/vocabulary/41 Mapudungun Vocabulary List] (from the World Loanword Database)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121113145613/http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Araucanian_Swadesh_lists Mapudungun Swadesh vocabulary list] (from Wiktionary's [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Swadesh_lists Swadesh-list appendix])
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20031011041028/http://www.xs4all.nl/~rehue/lang/gloss.html Spanish-Mapudungun glossary]
*[http://www.uct.cl/diccionario/ Mapudungun-Spanish Dictionary from the U. Católica de Temuco]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051018141822/http://www.redargentina.com/dialectos/araucano.asp Mapuche-Spanish dictionary]
*[http://www.freelang.net/espanol/diccionario/mapuche.html Freelang Dictionary]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160701175030/http://www.ailla.utexas.org/search/view_resource.html?coll_id=85 Audio recordings of short songs in Mapudungun with transcriptions and translations] from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160701174158/http://www.ailla.utexas.org/search/collection.html?c_id=85 Mapuche Collection of Magnus Course] at [[Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America|AILLA]]. 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170106173020/http://www.ailla.utexas.org/search/collection.html?c_id=19 Argentinian Languages Collection of Lucía Golluscio] containing audio recordings of Mapudungun from the [[Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America]]. 
*[https://ids.clld.org/contributions/309 Mapudungun] ([[Intercontinental Dictionary Series]])

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