Kawésqar

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Noun

Kawésqar (plural Kawésqars or Kawésqar)

  1. A member of an indigenous people of the Tierra del Fuego.
    • 2009, María Estela Mansur, and Raquel Piqué, “Between the Forest and the Sea: Hunter-Gatherer Occupations in the Subantarctic Forests in Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina”, in Arctic Anthropology, volume 46, number 1/2, pages 145-46:
      he Kawesqar, who occupied the islands and coast of the western sector of the Magellan Strait.

Proper noun

Kawésqar

  1. An Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Alacaluf people.
    • 2008, Willem Adelaar, “Towards a typological profile of the Andean languages”, in Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics,, volume 33, page 27:
      lso in the Kawesqar or Alacaluf language of southern Chile.

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