northern Peru and Ecuador (inter-Andean valley). Chimuan consisted of three attested languages: Chimuan Mochica (a.k.a. Yunga, Chimú) Cañar–Puruhá Cañari...

Proto-Mayan language and a predecessor of the Chimuan languages, which hail from the northern coast of Perú, and Uru-Chipaya (Uruquilla and Chipaya) languages, which...

were Chimuan languages (see). In Peru, and further up in the Andes there were also numerous languages. Apart from Mochica and Cholón, the languages of northern...

to Puruhá, though it may have been Chimuan or Barbacoan. (See Cañari–Puruhá languages.) It was the original language of the Cañari people before its replacement...

is usually considered to be a language isolate, but has also been hypothesized as belonging to a wider Chimuan language family. Stark (1972) proposes...

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...

based on Schmidt (1926), classifies Sechura–Catacao together with the Chimuan languages in his Yunga–Puruhá family. Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic...

to modern Awa Pit. The Cañari–Puruhá languages are even more poorly attested, and while often placed in a Chimuan family, Adelaar (2004:397) thinks they...

language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...

The Maya–Yunga–Chipayan languages are a proposed macrofamily linking the Chimuan, Uru–Chipaya, and Mayan language families of the Americas. The macrofamily...

city and former bishopric, now a Catholic titular see Mochica language, a Chimuan language formerly spoken along the northwest coast of Peru This disambiguation...

languages.) Puruhá and Puruguai/Puruguay are synonyms per Loukotka (1968) Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages...

history of the sprachraum. Extinct language Language death Lists of endangered languages Lists of extinct languages Last surviving native speaker; it is...

About 600 indigenous languages are known from South America, Central America, and the Antilles (see List of indigenous languages of South America), although...

Languages Families Algonquian languages Athabaskan languages Catawban languages Eskimoan languages Iroquoian languages (Northern) Iroquoian languages...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

proposed a Maya–Yunga–Chipayan macrofamily linking Mayan with the Chimuan and Uru–Chipaya language families of South America. Below is a comparison of selected...