Huancavilca language
| Huancavilca | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ecuador |
| Region | Guayas, Manabí, Santa Elena |
| Ethnicity | Manteño-Huancavilca culture |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
unclassified | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
Huancavilca is an extinct unclassified language formerly spoken by the Huancavilca people in Guayas, Manabí and Santa Elena Provinces in Ecuador.[1]
Classification
Mason (1950) lists Apichiquí, Cancebí, Charapoto, Pichote, Pichoasac, Pichunsi, Manabí, Jarahusa, and Jipijapa as dialects of Atalán.[2] Rivet (1924) lists Manta, Huancavilca, Puna, and Tumbez within an Atalán family.[3]
Vocabulary
Huancavilca is very poorly known and therefore unclassifiable. Čestmír Loukotka (1968) reported that four words had been compiled in Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño's 1919 book.[4]
References
- ^ Paz y Miño, Luis Telmo (1961). "Las agrupaciones y lenguas indígenas del Ecuador en 1500 y en 1959: Del Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Historia Vol. XLIII-Enero-Junio de 1961- n. 97". Antropología: Cuadernos de Investigación (28): 76–90. ISSN 2631-2506.
- ^ Mason, John Alden (1950). "The languages of South America". In Steward, Julian (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians. Vol. 6. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. pp. 157–317.
- ^ Rivet, Paul. 1924. Langues Américaines III: Langues de l’Amérique du Sud et des Antilles. In: Antoine Meillet and Marcel Cohen (ed.), Les Langues du Monde, Volume 16, 639–712. Paris: Collection Linguistique.
- ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Classification of South American Indian Languages (PDF) (4th ed.). Latin American Center, UCLA: Latin American Center, University of California Los Angeles. p. 239. ISBN 9780879031077.