Chono

English

Alternative forms

• Chonoan

Proper noun

Chono (usually uncountable, plural Chonos)

1. An extinct indigenous people of the southern Chilean archipelago.
   • 1911, Alexander F Chamberlain, “On the Puelchean and Tsonekan (Tehuelchean), the Atacameñan (Atacaman) and Chonoan, and the Charruan Linguistic Stocks of South America.”, in American Anthropologist‎^[1], volume 13, number 3, page 468:

     [T]he appellation by which the Indians after whom the islands inhabited by them were called the Archipelago de los Chonos, were known to the early missionaries, etc., of Chile. According to Lenz (Dicc. etimol., p.312), Chono is probably the name given by these Indians to themselves. Its etymology is quite uncertain.

2. A member of the Chono.
3. The language spoken by the Chono.
   • 1923, A. L. Kroeber, “Review: El Grupo Lingüistico Alakaluf journal= American Anthropologist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2], volume 25, number 4, page 570:

     It seems not entirely certain that Chono is forgotten, and an exploration for surviving speakers, as well as for individuals who may know the neighboring Atacaman, is urgently needed.