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Chimuan (also
Chimúan) or
Yuncan (Yunga–Puruhá, Yunca–Puruhán) is a
hypothetical small extinct language family of
northern Peru and
Ecuador (inter-Andean...
- The Maya–Yunga–Chipayan
languages are a
proposed macrofamily linking the
Chimuan, Uru–Chipaya, and
Mayan language families of the Americas. The macrofamily...
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suggests they may have been
related to
Mochica (Yunga) in a
family called Chimuan, but
Adelaar (2004:397)
thinks it is more
likely that they were Barbacoan...
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apart from
being apparently related to Puruhá,
though it may have been
Chimuan or Barbacoan. (See Cañari–Puruhá languages.) It was the
original language...
- (2004:397)
finds this more
likely than a
proposal that Puruhá and Cañar were
Chimuan languages (see). In Peru, and
further up in the
Andes there were also numerous...
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language isolate, but has also been
hypothesized as
belonging to a
wider Chimuan language family.
Movima 1,400
Vulnerable Bolivia Spoken in the
Llanos de...
- Cañari–Puruhá
languages are even more
poorly attested, and
while often placed in a
Chimuan family,
Adelaar (2004:397)
thinks they may have been Barbacoan. The Coconucan...
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known as Charrúan) †
Chibchan (Central
America &
South America) (22)
Chimuan (3) † Chipaya–Uru (also
known as Uru–Chipaya)
Chiquitano Choco (10) (also...
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Barbacoan Yurumanguí
Esmeralda Pacific coast (Peru) Sechura–Catacao ?
Chimuan Cañari–Puruhá
Mochica Amazon (Peru) Pano–Tacanan Hibito–Cholon Cahuapanan...
- 'Yucha'
which is a
sister of Proto-Mayan
language and a
predecessor of the
Chimuan languages,
which hail from the
northern coast of Peru, and Uru-Chipaya...
