OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 51819

Araucanization

Meanings (ES + gloss)
araucanización • mapuchezación
The process of expansion of the Mapudungun language and other elements of the Mapuche culture from its homeland Araucania into the plains of Patagonia, so as to assimilate such other native Amerindian peoples as the Puelches and Tehuelches.
The Araucanization of the pampa continued into the first half of the nineteenth century as Araucanian speakers continued to migrate across the Andes.
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