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Extinct language pair of Ecuador
Cañari (Cañar, Kanyari) and Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá) are two poorly-attested
extinct languages of the Marañón River basin in Ecuador that are difficult to classify. Puruhá is scarcely attested, and Cañari is known primarily from placenames. Loukotka (1968) suggests they may have been related to
Mochica (Yunga) in a family called
Chimuan,
[1] but Adelaar (2004:397) thinks it is more likely that they were
Barbacoan languages. (See
extinct languages of the Marañón River basin.)
Varieties
Cañari and Puruhá are the two main varieties:
[1]
"Northern Chimú" varieties listed by Loukotka (1968) are given below. All are unattested except for Huancavilca and Manabí.
[1]
- Ayahuaca - extinct language spoken in the Conquest days on the
Quiros River and around the city of
Ayahuaca,
Department of Piura; now Quechuanized.
- Calva - extinct language once spoken in
Loja Province, Ecuador, north of the Ayahuaca tribe.
- Tumbi / Tumbez - once spoken on the
Tumbes River and
Naranjal River,
department of Tumbes, Peru.
- Puná / Lapuna - once spoken on
Puná Island, Ecuador.
- Colonche - once spoken on the river of the same name,
Guayas Province, Ecuador.
- Chanduy - once spoken in the Sierra Chanduy,
Guayas Province, Ecuador.
- Tacame / Atacamez - once spoken on the Pacific coast of
Esmeralda Province.
- Chongon - once spoken on the
Chongón River, Guayas province.
- Coaque - extinct language once spoken on the coast of Ecuador from Galera to the mouth of the
Jama River.
- Manabí / Manta - extinct language of
Manabí Province.
- Huancavilca - extinct language spoken in
Guayas Province around
Guayaquil and on the
Daule River and
Yaguachi River.
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