Kunza

KUZ

Alternate Names: Atacameño, Likanantaí, Lipe, Ulipe

Dialects: None known. Classified as Macro-Chibchan.

Genealogy:

Language isolate

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