Alacalufan languages

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Alacalufan
Geographic
distribution:		 Chile
Genetic
classification:		 no proven relationships
 Alacalufan
Subdivisions:


The Alacalufan languages have not been definitely linked to any other American language family. [1] Kakauhua is extinct and Kawésqar is highly endangered. [2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Lyle Campbell. 1997. American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Willem F.H. Adelaar and Pieter C. Muysken. 2004. The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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