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

Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá) 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. (See Cañari–Puruhá languages.)

References

  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.
Barbacoan languages
Northern
Southern
Cañari–Puruhá ?
Italics indicate extinct languages


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