// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the Wingka say? It had a fowl wing.
Wingka or huinca is an exonym used by indigenous Mapuche to refer to non-Mapuche, white Chileans and Argentines.[1] The term originated in the area of Concepción in Chile from the Mapuche language word we-inka, meaning new-Inca. This is a reference to Inca invaders who were later taken over by new Spanish invaders. This word is rendered as "inga" by Pedro de Valdivia in a letter to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.[2] At the time of the initial contact Mapuches called horses "hueque ingas" in reference to the hueque according to Valdivia's letter to the Emperor.[2]
In modern times wingka has been used as a pejorative.[3]
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[edit]- ↑ "Diccionario de americanismos: huinca". Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. 2010. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
- 1 2 Zavala, José Manuel; Dillehay, Tom D.; Daniel M., Stewart; Payàs, Gertrudis; Medianero, Francisco Javier (2021). "Los mapuche de Concepción y la frontera inca: revisión de fuentes tempranas y nuevos datos" [The Mapuche of Concepción and the Inca Frontier: Review of Early Sources and New Data]. Revista de Historia (in Spanish). 28 (2): 138–168. doi:10.29393/rh28-30mcjf50030.
- ↑ “E aqí, pues, dos razas distintas”. Paradigmas raciales en Chile (siglos XVIII-XXI): significados y deslindes conceptuales
