TOPONIMIA INDIGENA DE CHILE Versión electrónica del libro NOMBRES DE LUGAR INDIGENAS DE OSORNO, LLANQUIHUE Y CHILOE (CHILE) Valdivia, Dirección de Investigación - UNIPRINT Inscripción Nº 67.806 Santiago de Chile © Carlos Ramírez Sánchez
[email protected] 1997 (El Libro puede adquirirse en la Dirección de Investigación de la Universidad Austral de Chile.
[email protected] Costo US$ 16. No se incluye valor del flete). INDICE I. Introducción II. Corpus toponomástico III. Alcances lingüísticos IV. Distribución de los topónimos V. Conclusiones VI. Resumen VII. Bibliografía VIII. Anexo con mapas toponomásticos SUMMARY This research on the Mapuche Indian toponymy coverin the Chilean provinces of Osorno, Lanquihue and Chiloé is an important contribution to the field of Chilean Indian toponymy. A large corpus of toponyms from Mapuche or Mapudungun, the major Indian language still prevalent in our country, is analyzed, and some understanding of the Chono toponymy including the areas of Archipiélago de Chiloé and Los Chonos is also added. The corpus has been gathered through direct surveys in the considered in the study. The toponyms has been phonetically transcribed using the I.P.A. alphabet (1951 and 1979) with some minor changes. Concerning etymological and semantic analysis, various bibliographical sources mentioned in the final bibliography have been taken into account; a number of monolingual of Mapudungun and Mapudungun-Spanish bilinguals have been also consulted for accurate information on each item. The chapters dealing with classification and distribution af the toponyms have thrown some light on the following: a) background information related with the main referents contained in each item, and, b) data related with the geographical locations in which the names coming from the Mapudungun area concentrated.