Indigenous Languages Spoken in Argentina: A Survey of NLP and Speech Resources

Belu Ticona, Fernando Martín Carranza, Viviana Cotik


Abstract
Argentina has a diverse, yet little-known, Indigenous language heritage. Most of these languages are at risk of disappearing, resulting in a significant loss of world heritage and cultural knowledge. Currently, no unified information on speakers and computational tools is available for these languages. In this work, we present a systematization of the Indigenous languages spoken in Argentina, along with national demographic data on the country’s Indigenous population. The languages are classified into seven families: Mapuche, Tupí-Guaraní, Guaycurú, Quechua, Mataco-Mataguaya, Aymara, and Chon. We also provide an introductory survey of the computational resources available for these languages, whether or not they are specifically developed for Argentine varieties.
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2025.coling-main.565
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Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert
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Belu Ticona, Fernando Martín Carranza, and Viviana Cotik. 2025. Indigenous Languages Spoken in Argentina: A Survey of NLP and Speech Resources. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 8449–8461, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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