🇨🇱 What Language Do They Speak in Chile?
The short answer
Chile speaks Spanish — famously fast, syllable-swallowing Spanish loaded with unique slang (chilenismos). Even fluent speakers from other countries joke that Chilean is its own language, but standard Spanish will serve you fine everywhere.
Worth knowing
- ●'¿Cachai?' ('you get it?') is the classic Chilean verbal tic
- ●Mapudungun, the language of the Mapuche people, is spoken in the south
- ●Chileans often drop the final 's': 'gracias' becomes 'gracia'
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