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Kawésqar
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en Kawesqar
Noun
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A member of an indigenous people of the Tierra del Fuego.
en 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 Arctic Anthropology http://www.jstor.org/stable/40645469 46 1/2 145-46 [T]he Kawesqar, who occupied the islands and coast of the western sector of the Magellan Strait.
Proper noun
An Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Alacaluf people.
en 2008 Willem Adelaar Towards a typological profile of the Andean languages Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40997555 33 27 [A]lso in the Kawesqar or Alacaluf language of southern Chile.
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en Kawesqaran
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