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
I Love Chile News I Love Chile News I Love Chile (aka ILC) is a national multimedia company operating in Santiago de Chile. All news stories are about Chile or Chileans abroad. I Love Chile publishes all their services in English. The ILC online magazine vies with The Santiago Times being the leader of English language media in Chile. ILC provides its news for free across Chile and can be found in kiosks, hotels and at many airports throughout the nation. I Love Chile was founded in 2007 as Santiago Radio (English language station) by Daniel H. Brewington. Today, the international team is spread