Kawésqar

English

Alternative forms

• Kawesqar

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^[1], volume 46, number 1/2, pages 145-46:

     [T]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,‎^[2], volume 33, page 27:

     [A]lso in the Kawesqar or Alacaluf language of southern Chile.

Related terms

• Kawesqaran

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Kawésqar, alc ⁠