Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche of modern south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, did not have a writing system when the Spanish arrived. There have been a number of proposals for orthographies or Mapudungun alphabets, all of them using Latin script, but no consensus has yet been achieved between authorities, linguists and Mapuche communities on the one to be used.
Consonants
Mapudungun has the following consonant system. (*) Raguileo does not distinguish between and or between and . Also, Raguileo aims to use only one grapheme for each phoneme (no digraphs) so it uses some letters from the alphabet in an unexpected way. Wirizüŋun also does not distinguish between and . (*) , which is spelled "tr" is also pronounced []. ==Vowels==
Vowels
Mapudungun has six vowels. The three high vowels also have corresponding approximant consonants. ==References==