Cañari–Puruhá languages
| Cañari–Puruhá | |
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| Geographic distribution | Ecuadoran Andes |
| Linguistic classification | Barbacoan? Chimúan?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | None |
Cañari (Cañar, Kanyari) and Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá) are two poorly-attested extinct languages of the Marañón River basin in Ecuador that are difficult to classify. Puruhá is scarcely attested, and Cañari is known primarily from placenames. Loukotka (1968) suggests they may have been related instead to Mochica (Yunga) in a family called Chimuan, but Adelaar (2004:397) thinks it is more likely that they were Barbacoan languages. (See extinct languages of the Marañón River basin.)
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