| Sanavirón | |
| States: | Argentina |
| Ethnicity: | Sanavirones |
| Extinct: | ? |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Family: | unclassified |
| Iso3: | none |
| Glotto: | none |
| Linglist: | 1nf |
Sanavirón is an extinct and unclassified language once spoken near the Salinas Grandes in Córdoba, Argentina. Loukotka (1968)[1] classified it as a language isolate, but there is insufficient data to justify this according to Campbell (2012).[2]
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.[3]
| gloss | Sanaviron | |
|---|---|---|
| water | para | |
| sun | solo | |
| earth | lasta | |
| house | tolo |
. Čestmír Loukotka . Classification of South American Indian languages . registration . UCLA Latin American Center . 1968 . Los Angeles.
. 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.
. Čestmír Loukotka . Classification of South American Indian languages . registration . UCLA Latin American Center . 1968 . Los Angeles.