Their language, believed to be part of the Chonan family, is considered extinct as the last speakers died in the 1980s.
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Part of the Chonan language family of Patagonia, Selk'nam is now extinct, due both to the late 19th-century Selknam Genocide by European immigrants, high fatalities due to disease, and disruption of traditional society.