Yaghan people

Name: Yaghan people: census figures, languages and lineage
Creator: Genetik
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Яганы · Q580659

language area per Glottologcensus counts

1,244

Chile, census 2024 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)

Yámana

language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Chile: 1,244 people in the 2024 census.

Main language: Yámana.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Chile2024 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Yámana» · [1]

1,244

Languages and their lineage

Yámana

Yámanayama1264

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Sources

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Chile, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)