Anselmo Raguileo Lincopil (3 May 1922 - 29 February 1992) was a Chilean

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, historian, researcher and poet of the

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people. He developed the Raguileo Alfabet.

Life

Raguileo Anselmo was born May 3, 1922, in Saltapura, Chile, 16 kilometers southeast of

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. His primary studies were at the Boroa Mission School and later at Missionary Padre Las Casas. He did his secondary studies at the Industrial School of Temuco, graduating in Metallurgy Office Technician. Raguileo Anselmo later he moved to

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to study chemistry at the

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. He graduated as a Chemist in 1944. From 1952 to 1956, Raguileo Anselmo studied

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and was a language teacher. He Mapuche culture in the Pedagogical Institute of the University of Chile. 1922 births 1992 deaths Mapuche Lincopil 20th-century Chilean historians 20th-century Chilean male writers 20th-century Mapuche people Mapuche historians Mapuche linguists Linguists of Mapuche Historians of the Mapuche world Linguists of indigenous languages of South America Mapuche poets 20th-century linguists {{SouthAm-linguist-stub