Alternate Names: Atacameño, Likanantaí, Lipe, Ulipe
Dialects: None known. Classified as Macro-Chibchan.
Genealogy:
Demographics: No known L1 speakers. Ethnic population: 21,000 (2002 census).
Language Use: Shifted to Spanish [spa]. Fragmentary knowledge of the language and its pronunciation retained in prayers and invocations (Crevels 2007).
Language Development: Dictionary.
Nation of Origin: Chile