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Huilliche Indian Language (Williche)

Huilliche is an Araucanian language of Chile. Although the Huilliche indigenous community is vibrant with more than 15,000 members, their language is almost lost, with only a few dozen elders still able to speak Huilliche. Huilliche is an agglutinative language with complex verbs. It is closely related to the better known Mapuche language, and some linguists consider it to be a divergent dialect of Mapuche.

Huilliche Language Resources

Omniglot: Huilliche:
Profile of the Huilliche language including a phonological inventory, orthography and a text.

Diccionario Tsesungun:
Online dictionary of Tsesungun Huilliche, with some audio clips of spoken words. Index in Spanish.

Huilliche:
Wikipedia article on the Huilliche language.

Huilliche Language Tree:
Theories about Huilliche's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

Huilliche Culture and History Links

The Araucanians:
Articles about Mapuche and Huilliche history and culture.

Britannica: Huilliche:

Wikipedia: Huilliche:
Encyclopedia articles about the Huilliche people.

Huilliches: el pueblo mapuche más austral del mundo:
Information about the Huilliche tribe in Spanish.

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