• Kunza (Kunza: Likanantaí) is an extinct language isolate once spoken in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and southern Peru by the Atacama people, who...
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    Chile was home to 21,015 Atacameño people as of 2002. Other names include Kunza and Likanantaí. The origins of Atacameño culture can be traced back to 500...
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  • Liolaemus kunza is a species of lizard in the family Liolaemidae. It is native to Argentina. Liolaemus kunza at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed...
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    Arackar (meaning "skeleton" in Kunza) is an extinct genus of lithostrotian sauropod, possibly part of the Saltasauridae, discovered in the Hornitos Formation...
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    Aymara. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Kunza, Leko, Mapudungun, Mochika, Uru-Chipaya, Zaparo, Arawak, Kandoshi, Muniche...
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    name "Calama," but the two main accounts suggest that it comes from the Kunza language, spoken in the past by the Lickan-antay, an ethnic group that resides...
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    of Kawésqar. Gününa këna: Spoken by the Gününa küne or Puelche people. Kunza: Spoken by the Atacameño people around San Pedro de Atacama. It disappeared...
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    Peruvian Highlands Pre-Proto-Mapudungun: coast of southern Peru Pre-Proto-Kunza: sources of the Urubamba and Apurimac Rivers Pre-Proto-Uru-Chipaya: shores...
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  • Curnow (1998) argued that it (or at least Paez–Coconucan) is spurious. Kunza–Kapixana was a more provisional suggestion (Kaufman 1990, 1994, 2007; Swadesh...
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    Tentatively linked to Kwaza and Aikanã. Part of a Macro-Paesan proposal. Kunza Extinct Chile Spoken in areas near Salar de Atacama until the 1950s. Also...
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