Puruhá language explained

Puruhá
Region:Ecuadoran Andes
Extinct:early Colonial era
Familycolor:American
Iso3:none
Glotto:puru1257
Glottoname:Puruha
Glotto2:puru1267
Glottoname2:Puruguay

Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá)[1] and Campbell (2012) is a poorly attested extinct language of the Marañón River basin in Ecuador which is difficult to classify, apart from being apparently related to Cañari, though it may have been Barbacoan.[2] [3] (See Cañari–Puruhá languages.)

References

  1. Puruhá and Puruguai/Puruguay are synonyms per Loukotka (1968)
  2. Book: Loukotka, Čestmír . Čestmír Loukotka

    . Čestmír Loukotka . Classification of South American Indian languages . registration . UCLA Latin American Center . 1968 . Los Angeles.

  3. Book: Campbell, Lyle . Lyle Campbell

    . Lyle Campbell . Grondona . Verónica . Campbell . Lyle . 2012 . The Indigenous Languages of South America . Classification of the indigenous languages of South America . The World of Linguistics . 2 . Berlin . De Gruyter Mouton . 59–166 . 978-3-11-025513-3.