Araucanization
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noun
- The process of expansion of the Mapudungun language and other elements of the Mapuche culture from its homeland Araucania into the plains of Patagonia, so as to assimilate such other native Amerindian peoples as the Puelches and Tehuelches.
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From Spanish araucanización, from Araucanía. By surface analysis, Araucania + -ization.
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