 The Selk'nam language was related to the Tehuelche language and belonged to the Chon family of languages.The Onan language had more than 30,000 words.Alongside the Pericúes of Baja California, the Fuegians and Patagonians show the strongest evidence of partial descent from 
the Paleoamerican lineage,
a proposed early wave of migration to the Americas derived from a Australo-Melanesian population, as opposed to the main Amerind peopling of the Americas of Siberian (admixed Ancient North Eurasian and Paleo-East Asian) descent.