Atacameño

noun

Ata·​ca·​me·​ño

variants or Atacama

ˌ⸗⸗ˈkämə

plural Atacameño or Atacameños or Atacama or Atacamas

1

a

: a South American Indian people of the Atacama desert in northern Chile

b

: a member of such people

2

: the language formerly spoken by the Atacameño people

Word History

Etymology

Spanish, from the Atacama desert, northern Chile, their locality

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