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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

wingkazugun
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It was what the Mapuches called our language and it was also a way of referring to the conquistadors. It literally means language spoken by foreigners or language spoken by thieves, those who steal from us.

  




furoya

It is a mapuzugun or mapudungún (Mapuche) voice to name the Castilian language. It is formed by wingka, winka or huinca which translates as "foreigner, who is not Mapuche", but also means "thief, usurper", and is how they called the Incas conquistadors and then the whites; followed by zugun, which is understood as "the sound, the language".

  


John Rene Plaut

WINGKAZUGUN is actually WINGKA ZUGUN Zugin in Mapuche is speech, talk and wingka derives from wi, another and ingka, Inca. That is wingka is the Spanish conqueror, another conqueror, in addition to the Incas. Wingka zugun is the language of the conquerors, or simply Spanish.

  



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