Chimuan (also Chimúan) or Yuncan (Yunga–Puruhá, Yunca–Puruhán) is a hypothetical small extinct language family of northern Peru and Ecuador (inter-Andean valley).
northern Peru and Ecuador (inter-Andean valley). Chimuan consisted of three attested languages: Chimuan Mochica (a.k.a. Yunga, Chimú) Cañar–Puruhá Cañari...
Proto-Mayan language and a predecessor of the Chimuanlanguages, which hail from the northern coast of Perú, and Uru-Chipaya (Uruquilla and Chipaya) languages, which...
is usually considered to be a language isolate, but has also been hypothesized as belonging to a wider Chimuanlanguage family. Stark (1972) proposes...
to modern Awa Pit. The Cañari–Puruhá languages are even more poorly attested, and while often placed in a Chimuan family, Adelaar (2004:397) thinks they...
language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
city and former bishopric, now a Catholic titular see Mochica language, a Chimuanlanguage formerly spoken along the northwest coast of Peru This disambiguation...
history of the sprachraum. Extinct languageLanguage death Lists of endangered languages Lists of extinct languages Last surviving native speaker; it is...
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About 600 indigenous languages are known from South America, Central America, and the Antilles (see List of indigenous languages of South America), although...
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