| Chono | |
|---|---|
| Aksanás | |
| Spoken in | Chile |
| Region | Chiloé Archipelago |
| Ethnicity | Chono people |
| Extinct | 1875 |
| Language family |
unclassified
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Linguist List | 064 |
Chono is a poorly attested extinct language of confusing classification that may or may not be related to Kawesqar. It is attested primarily from an 18th-century catechism, which is not translated into Spanish. Viegas Barros, who postulates a relationship between Kawesqar and Yaghan, believes that 45% of the Chono vocabulary and grammatical forms correspond to one of those languages, though it is not close to either.