Kawésqar

plural Kawésqars · alternative Kawesqar

1. A member of an indigenous people of the Tierra del Fuego.

   [T]he Kawesqar, who occupied the islands and coast of the western sector of the Magellan Strait.

   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”, in Arctic Anthropology, volume 46, number 1/2, pages 145-46

alternative Kawesqar

1. An Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Alacaluf people.

   [A]lso in the Kawesqar or Alacaluf language of southern Chile.

   2008, Willem Adelaar, “Towards a typological profile of the Andean languages”, in Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics,, volume 33, page 27