Puruhá language

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Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá)[1] and Campbell (2012) is a poorly attested extinct language of the Marañón River basin in Ecuador which is difficult to classify, apart from being apparently related to Cañari, though it may have been Barbacoan.[2][3] (See Cañari–Puruhá languages.)

Puruhá
RegionEcuadoran Andes
Extinctearly Colonial era
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologpuru1257  Puruha
puru1267  Puruguay

References

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  1. ^ Puruhá and Puruguai/Puruguay are synonyms per Loukotka (1968)
  2. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  3. ^ Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3.