Ona
Selknam; Selk'nam; Shelknam; Aona; Island Chonan; Selk'nam; Chon; Island Chon language area;
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Whereas in 1880 the Selk’nam ethnic group consisted of about 4,000 members, there were only two direct descendents left in 1980. Today the language is extinct.
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Argentina, Chile
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No known L1 speakers (Crevels 2007). The ethnic group disintegrated by early 20th century; last speakers died in the 1970s (Crevels 2007) (2013).
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Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego.
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Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego.
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Los selknam u onas, cuya lengua se extingue hacia fines del siglo XX. [The Selknam or Onas, whose language became extinct towards the end of the 20th century.]
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Los selknam u onas, cuya lengua se extingue hacia fines del siglo XX. [The Selknam or Onas, whose language became extinct towards the end of the 20th century.]
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- The Haush and Ona, primitive tribes of Tierra del FuegoFurlong, Charles Wellington. 1917. "The Haush and Ona, Primitive Tribes of Tierra Del Fuego." In Proceedings of the nineteenth international congress of Americanists, held at Washington, December 15-17, 1915, edited by F. W. Hodge. 432-444. Washington.
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