• Kunza is an extinct language isolate once spoken in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and southern Peru by the Atacama people, who have since shifted...
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    similarities with the Kechua, Kunza, Leko, Uru-Chipaya, Arawak, and Pukina language families due to contact. Aymaran languages have only three phonemic vowels...
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    Licancabur (category Articles containing Kunza-language text)
    Inca or the burial of an Inca king. The name Licancabur comes from the Kunza language, where lican means "people" or "town" and cábur/ caur, caure or cauri...
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    Salar de Arizaro (category Articles containing Kunza-language text)
    Salar de Arizaro ("Arizaro" comes from Atacameno haâri "crow", "condor" and ara, aro, "accommodation", "place where something is common".) is a large salt...
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    Calama, Chile (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    "Calama," but the two main accounts suggest that it comes from the Kunza language, spoken in the past by the Lickan-antay, an ethnic group that resides...
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  • speaker of Kunza language isolate was found in 1949, with the final shift to Spanish completed at some point in the 1950s. The Ona language spoken by Selk'nam...
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    Mapudungun, Kanichana, and Kunza language families due to contact. Jolkesky (2016) also suggests that similarities with Amazonian languages may be due to the early...
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    Arackar (meaning "skeleton" in Kunza) is an extinct genus of lithostrotian sauropod, possibly part of the Saltasauridae, discovered in the Hornitos Formation...
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  • Huilliche is the native language of a few thousand Chileans. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Kunza, Mochika, Uru-Chipaya...
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    Ethnic groups of Argentina (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    Argentina. In the past they spoke a language known as Kunza, to day the Kunza language is an isolate extinct language once spoken Chile, Argentina and Bolivia...
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