Millcayac language

Millcayac
Native to Argentina, dispossessed to Chile
Ethnicity Huarpe people
Extinct few Huarpean speakers left by 1630
Huarpean
  • Millcayac
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
qgb (Milykayak)
Glottolog mill1237[1]

Millcayac (Milykayak) was one of two known Warpean languages. It was native to Cuyo in Argentina, but was displaced to Chile in the late 16th century before being described. The people became mestizo and lost their language soon after.

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Millcayac". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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