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

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Pith's one-line read Argentina's Indigenous languages: seven families, few computational tools

desk verdict A useful country-specific resource survey whose demographic figure overstates what the census can support; worth publishing after revision. read the letter →

arxiv 2501.09943 v2 pith:NC6K6Y5D submitted 2025-01-17 cs.CL

Belu Ticona , Fernando Carranza , Viviana Cotik This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

This paper compiles what is known about the Indigenous languages spoken in Argentina, grouping at least 40 languages into seven families: Mapuche, Tupí-Guaraní, Guaycurú, Quechua, Mataco-Mataguaya, Aymara, and Chon. It derives national speaker estimates from the 2022 Argentine census, noting that the census only asks self-identified community members whether they speak 'the Indigenous language of their community,' which can hide true speaker numbers. It then surveys computational resources for these languages, finding that most NLP and speech work targets Quechua, Tupí-Guaraní, and Mapuche, often in varieties spoken outside Argentina. The authors intend the systematization as a starting point for researchers and community efforts, making the language inventory, speaker estimates, and resource gaps visible in one place. If the census-based estimates are right, Mapudungún, Guaraní varieties, and Wichí have the largest speaking populations in the country.

What carries the argument

The central object is the seven-family classification of Argentina's Indigenous languages, built on prior linguistic surveys (Censabella 1999; Ciccone 2010). The argument runs through a mapping from census community data to ISO 639-3 language codes: for each family, the authors take the self-identified Indigenous population and the percentage who say they speak their community's language, then multiply to get an estimated speaking population. The survey machinery is a protocol that collects papers from major NLP venues and organizes them by family and task. The demographic mapping is what carries the claim about how many speakers each language has, and the family classification is what carries the resource survey.

What would settle it

A community-by-community linguistic survey of, say, the Qom (Toba), Wichí, or Mapuche regions that asks people directly which languages they use would settle whether the census-derived speaking populations are accurate; if the survey found substantially different numbers from the INDEC-based estimates, the paper's demographic claims would need revision.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that Argentina's Indigenous linguistic diversity can be usefully organized into seven language families, each with a characteristic demographic footprint and a specific pattern of computational neglect. For each family it reports a speaking population derived from INDEC's 2022 census, and it argues that these figures are systematically undercounted because the census question design excludes Indigenous language speakers who do not self-identify as members of an Indigenous community, as well as those who speak a language associated with a different community. The survey of NLP and speech resources shows that only a handful of languages—notably Mapudungún, Paraguayan Guaraní, and southern Quechua varieties—have any substantial corpus or model, and almost none of these resources were built for Argentine varieties such as Santiago del Estero Quichua or Corrientes Guaraní.

Load-bearing premise

The speaker estimates assume that the census's self-identification percentages can be mapped directly to specific languages, even though the census never asks which language a person speaks and excludes Indigenous-language speakers who do not self-identify as Indigenous.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the seven-family systematization is adopted, future work has a common reference for which languages are in scope and which Argentine varieties need dedicated attention.
  • The finding that most computational resources target non-Argentine varieties means existing models for Quechua or Guaraní may not transfer well to Argentine dialects such as Santiago del Estero Quichua.
  • The census undercount argument implies that official figures of roughly 1.3 million Indigenous descendants and 29.3% speakers understate the actual number of Indigenous language speakers, so language-planning decisions based on those numbers may be misinformed.
  • For NLP, the survey shows that speech data is especially scarce: only Mapudungún and some Quechua varieties have transcribed audio, while most families have no public corpora at all.
  • The authors' call for involving Indigenous communities in evaluation suggests that future resource development should include community-defined usability criteria, not just technical benchmarks.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A direct testable extension would be to change the next national census question to ask which specific Indigenous language a person speaks, which would resolve the mapping ambiguity the paper identifies; this is an inference from the paper's critique, not a claim the authors make.
  • The scarcity of resources for Argentine varieties suggests that dialect-identification or cross-variety transfer methods could be a productive research direction, since existing corpora are dominated by Peruvian Quechua and Paraguayan Guaraní.
  • Because the paper includes resources for neighboring-country varieties, its coverage hints that regional collaboration—sharing corpora across countries—could fill gaps faster than each country building resources alone, but the authors do not explicitly recommend this.
  • The emphasis on written-language techniques while Indigenous languages are predominantly oral implies that speech-based technologies (ASR, TTS, spoken dialogue) may have higher community impact than text NLP; this is an inference from the paper's discussion of oral tradition.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper surveys Indigenous languages spoken in Argentina, organizing them into seven language families (Mapuche, Tupí-Guaraní, Guaycurú, Quechua, Mataco-Mataguaya, Aymara, and Chon), presenting demographic estimates based on the 2022 Argentine census (INDEC), and cataloguing NLP and speech resources for these languages. The demographic portion rests on mapping census self-identification data to specific ISO 639-3 language varieties, while the resource survey follows a described protocol in the appendix and covers both Argentine varieties and related varieties from neighboring countries. The paper concludes that most computational resources target Quechua, Tupí-Guaraní, and Mapuche, often for non-Argentine varieties.

Significance. If the demographic estimates were reliable, the paper would be a valuable reference for researchers working on Indigenous language technology in Argentina. The survey of computational resources is useful and appears carefully compiled: the appendix documents the collection protocol, the tables list corpora and tasks with public-availability markers, and the discussion of challenges (data scarcity, orality, community inclusion) is sensible. The authors are transparent about the census limitation and about the cultural situatedness of the work. However, the demographic contribution is the weaker half of the paper: the central Figure 1 presents exact speaker counts for named language varieties that the census data cannot support in the way they are derived, as detailed below. The resource survey alone would justify a revised version of the paper, but the demographic claims as currently presented are not reliable.

major comments (1)
  1. [Section 2, Figure 1, Appendix B] The 'Kolla Quechua' row in Figure 1 lists a population of 69,121 and a speaking population of 28,339 for a variety that the paper itself says has no established linguistic distinctiveness: 'We are not aware of any work addressing whether the Kolla Quechua shows peculiarities that justify treating it as a different variety' (Section 2). Appendix B further notes that there is no special ISO code for the variety spoken by the Kolla community. Presenting exact speaker numbers for this category is internally inconsistent with the paper's own caveats and should be corrected, either by removing the category or by clearly labeling it as a census community category rather than a language variety.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Section 3, first paragraph] The final line of Appendix B contains a stray 'F' character that appears to be a typographical artifact.
  2. [References] Two references listed as Oncevay (2021a) and Oncevay (2021b) have identical titles ('Peru is multilingual, its machine translation should be too?'); if they are the same work, one should be removed or disambiguated.
  3. [Figure 1] The left part of the figure shows the distribution of Indigenous communities, but the caption does not explain how the map symbols or the placement of communities correspond to the census data; a brief note on the geographic-coordinate source and the handling of multiple communities per polygon would improve reproducibility.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: the survey compiles external census and literature data; the speaking-population figures are direct arithmetic on INDEC columns, not a fitted prediction.

full rationale

This paper is a literature and data survey. Its taxonomic claims are attributed to Censabella, Ciccone, Nercesian, and Ethnologue/Glottolog; its demographic numbers are taken from the 2022 INDEC census and multiplied by census-reported speaker percentages to form an estimate explicitly described as such. There are no equations, fitted parameters, or predictive claims whose outputs are defined by their own inputs. The Kolla/Chané/Ava Guaraní mappings and the vertical-centering of undifferentiated community data are validity choices acknowledged in Appendix B ('it is important to mention that not all information ... can be mapped to ISO languages straightforwardly'), and the census self-identification issue is discussed in Section 2; those are data-quality and interpretive limitations, not circularity. No load-bearing self-citation occurs: none of the authors' prior works are invoked to justify the framework. The survey's contribution is organizational and its claims rest on external, citable sources, so the circularity score is zero.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper is a survey, so its central claims rest on external data sources and classifications rather than on new measurements or derivations. The key axioms are the reliability of the census for speaker counts, the authority of the chosen linguistic classification, the correctness of Ethnologue metadata, and the sufficiency of the literature search. These are reasonable but unverified assumptions.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The 2022 INDEC census provides valid estimates of the number of Indigenous community members who speak their community's language.
    All population and speaker counts in Figure 1 derive from the census. The paper itself notes the census design may underestimate speakers, so this assumption is load-bearing for the demographic estimates.
  • domain assumption The classification of Argentine Indigenous languages into seven families by Censabella (1999) and Ciccone (2010) is correct and comprehensive.
    The paper adopts this classification without independent verification and notes that other languages not included in the survey exist, so the classification is a selective framework rather than an exhaustive one.
  • domain assumption Ethnologue vitality ratings and ISO 639-3 codes reliably represent the status and identity of each language.
    Vitality ratings and ISO codes in Figure 1 and the text come from Ethnologue, which the paper uses without critical discussion.
  • domain assumption The search protocol over selected NLP venues and snowballing captures the majority of relevant computational resources.
    The completeness of the resource survey depends on this protocol. Work published in other venues, workshops, or as technical reports may be missing, which would weaken the survey's conclusions about scarcity.

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Argentina has a large yet little-known Indigenous linguistic diversity, encompassing at least 40 different languages. The majority of these languages are at risk of disappearing, resulting in a significant loss of world heritage and cultural knowledge. Currently, unified information on speakers and computational tools is lacking for these languages. In this work, we present a systematization of the Indigenous languages spoken in Argentina, classifying them into seven language families: Mapuche, Tup\'i-Guaran\'i, Guaycur\'u, Quechua, Mataco-Mataguaya, Aymara, and Chon. For each one, we present an estimation of the national Indigenous population size, based on the most recent Argentinian census. We discuss potential reasons why the census questionnaire design may underestimate the actual number of speakers. We also provide a concise survey of computational resources available for these languages, whether or not they were specifically developed for Argentinian varieties.

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