Millcayac language

Millcayac
Native to	Argentina, dispossessed to Chile
Ethnicity	Huarpe people
Extinct	few Huarpean speakers left by 1630
Language family	Huarpean Millcayac;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	qgb (Milykayak)
Glottolog	mill1237[1]

Millcayac (Milykayak) was one of two known Warpean languages. It was native to Cuyo in Argentina, but was displaced to Chile in the late 16th century. Luis de Valdivia wrote a grammar, vocabulary and religious texts. The people became mestizo and lost their language soon after.

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Millcayac". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Millcayac". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.