Millcayac language

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.

Millcayac
Native toArgentina, dispossessed to Chile
EthnicityHuarpe people
Extinctfew Huarpean speakers left by 1630
Huarpean
  • Millcayac
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
qgb (Milykayak)
Glottologmill1237[1]

References

  1. 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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