Languages of Chile Languages of Chile The Republic of Chile is an overwhelmingly Spanish-speaking country, with the exceptions of isolated native and immigrant communities. According to Ethnologue, Chile has nine living languages and seven extinct. Of the 18 million Chileans, some 17 million speak Chilean Spanish as their first language. It is a Spanish dialect which is sometimes difficult for speakers of the Castilian variant of Spanish to understand. It is very similar to Andalusian Spanish in pronunciation but it does have a lot of local slang. There are some 1,700,000 Mapuche living in Chile, of whom 114,000 speak Mapudungun. Huilliche dialect or
The Battle of Chile The Battle of Chile The Battle of Chile is a documentary film directed by the Chilean Patricio Guzman, in three parts: "The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie" (1975), "The Coup d'état" (1976), "Popular Power" (1979). It is a chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. It won the Grand Prix in 1975 and 1976 at the Grenoble International Film Festival. In 1996, "Chile, Obstinate Memory" was released and followed Guzmán back to Chile as he screened the 3-part documentary to Chileans who had never seen