has, however, not been tested in regards to Specifically, the research consists of (i) an whether onomatopoeic names of compo- exhaustive review of the ethno-taxonomy nents of biodiversity have survived in the systems of birds in the Mapuche world, vernacular of a particular place or country. [...] particularly the etymology of the names of The Mapuche are Chile and Argenti- birds from temperate forests; (ii) an evalu- na’s largest group of Indigenous people and ation of whether bird names of Mapuche historically lived between the Choapa River origin have survived and permeated the (31°S) and the island of Chiloé (42°S) in Chilean vernacular and scientific names Chile, and from the city of M. [...] When tran- the people reported in the bibliographical scribing names in Mapuzugun from these source and the number of etymologies of bibliographic sources, the original spell- bird names described were recorded along ing was kept, according to the grapheme with the number of onomatopoeic etymol- used by each author. [...] Thus, for example, in the case of the bird whose Chilean vernacular name is tiuque Results (Milvago chimango) and can be written in A total of 718 names in Mapuzugun Mapuzugun as triuke, triuque, or chiuque, were found, of which 219 corresponded depending on the author; the latter were to different names for 92 species of birds counted as a total of three Mapuche names that inhabit the temperate f. [...] The Fox, the Fence and the Role of the Hoopoe in Afghan Folklore and Flux.
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