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-not enough citations for the points made

what happened to the 2006 Microsoft lawsuit?

-in Talk section, some users were upset page used to be called "Mapuche" and got it changed to "Mapuche language."

-most edits from 1990s or early 2000s

Wiki Edit Draft:

add "Temuco is the epicenter of the Mapuche territory today." (Smeets, Ineke (2008). A Grammar of Mapuche. Mouton de Gruyter.) to first section of Mapuche language page.

add "Most complex verb formations in Mapudungu are constructed with five or six morphemes (Monson et al. (2004) Data Collection and Analysis of Mapudungun Morphology for Spelling Correction. Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University) add "An inflection can be added to a noun with -mew or -mu. This suffix can refer to time, place, cause or comparison. (Smeets, Ineke (2008). A Grammar of Mapuche. Mouton de Gruyter.) to the morphology section. add "An example of this is the sentence Mesa-mew müle-y ti mamüllü ñi müle-n mi tukupu-a-l. table-loc be-ind/3sS the wood poss be-noml 2s.poss use-nrld-noml which translates to ‘On the table is the wood that you should use.’ (Baker, Mark C. On the Loci of Agreement: Inversion Constructions in Mapudungu. Rutgers University) add "Due to the low occurence of sh, s often replaces sh. (Smeets, Ineke (2008). A Grammar of Mapuche. Mouton de Gruyter.) to phonology section.

add "Spanish loan verbs have generally been adapted into Mapudungu in the third person singular form. An example is the Mapudungu verb for "to be able" is "pwede," and the Spanish translation for "he can" is "puede."(Smeets, Ineke (2008). A Grammar of Mapuche. Mouton de Gruyter.) to morphology section. add "Mapudungu uses particles, which is a small group of morphemes that enable the speaker to express how they feel about what they have said. Examples include chi (doubt), am (surprise), nga (regret), llemay (certainty), chemay (amazement), chiam (wonder), amfe (exclamation). There are also more complicated particles such as kay, which suggest the information about to be said is in contrast to what was just said. Another complex particle is may, which is used when the speaker expects to get a positive reaction from what they are saying. One particle, anchi, refers to the subject of the sentence, and an example would be "chem anchi?" which translates to what [is] that (pointed out)? (Smeets, Ineke (2008). A Grammar of Mapuche. Mouton de Gruyter.) to the morphology section.

I also want to create a new section titled "Language Revitalization Efforts." My first entry will be "The Chilean Ministry of Education created the Office of Intercultural Bilingual Education in 1996 in an attempt to include indigenous language in education. By 2004, there were still no programs in public schools in Santiago, despite the fact that 50% of the country’s Mapuche population resides in and around the area of Santiago. 30.4% of Mapuche students never graduate eighth grade and they have high rates of poverty. No university holds courses on Mapudungu. Most language revitalization efforts have been in rural communities and these efforts have been received in different ways by the Mapuche population: Ortize says some feel that teaching Mapudungu in schools will set their children behind other Chileans, which reveals that their culture has been devalued by the Chilean government for so long that unfortunately some Mapuche people have come to see their language as invaluable, too, which is a direct lasting impact of colonization" (Ortiz, Patricio R. (2009) Indigenous Knowledge and Language: Decolonizing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in a Mapuche Intercultural Bilingual Education Program in Chile. Canadian Journal of Indigenous Education, 32, 93-114.)