Peoples of the Americas

Mapudungun · beginner

Land & nature

Eight words for the world Mapudungun is named after, the vocabulary that turns up inside people's names, place names and the language's own name.

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Mapu

Land; earth

The word this whole collection stands on.

ConnectionMapu + che, people of the land. Mapu + dungun, speech of the land. Wall + mapu, the whole country. One word, everywhere.

◌ Audio pending, native-speaker recordings only, never synthetic voices.