Puruhá language

Puruhá
Puruguay
Native toEcuador
RegionChimborazo Province
EthnicityPuruhá
Extinctc. late 17th century
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologpuru1267
Linguasphere84-AAA-aa

Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá) 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. A grammar was reportedly written in the late 17th century; it appears to have been lost.

Proper names

Family names frequently end in -cela or -lema, sich as Duchicela, the family of Atahualpa's mother Paccha Duchicela, and Daquilema, the surname of 19th-century rebel Fernando Daquilema. Endings of place names include -shi (e.g. Pilligshi), -tus (e.g. Guasuntús), and -bug (e.g. Tulubug). Some complex endings are -cahuan, -calpi, -tactu, which can occur with Quechua roots, as in Supaycahuan (Quechua supay 'devil').

See also

References

  1. ↑ Floyd, Simeon (2022-01-01). "Ecuadorian Highland Quichua and the Lost Languages of the Northern Andes". International Journal of American Linguistics. 88 (1): 1–52. doi:10.1086/717056. ISSN 0020-7071.
  2. ↑ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center.
  3. ↑ Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3.
  4. 1 2 Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Muysken, Pieter (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge (G.B.): Cambridge University press. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7.