Most of the ethnic group speaks Spanish as first language. Speakers have positive language attitudes. Rainy, cold weather. A few speakers were located in 1949 and since by anthropologists. Some early grammatical essays exist.
Group now speaks Spanish.
Between the Itata and Tolten rivers. Easy intelligibility among all dialects. Pehuenche and Moluche are very close. 85,000 are reported to be literate in Spanish. Mountain slope, coastal, plains, riverine.