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.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{ticona-etal-2025-indigenous,
title = "Indigenous Languages Spoken in {A}rgentina: A Survey of {NLP} and Speech Resources",
author = "Ticona, Belu and
Carranza, Fernando Mart{\'i}n and
Cotik, Viviana",
editor = "Rambow, Owen and
Wanner, Leo and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Eugenio, Barbara Di and
Schockaert, Steven",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.565/",
pages = "8449--8461"
}