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Charruan languages

Charruan
Ethnicity Charrúa people
Geographic
distribution
Uruguay and Entre Ríos Province, Argentina
Linguistic classification Mataco–Guaicuru ?
  • Charruan
Subdivisions
Glottolog char1238
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Pre-contact distribution of the Charruan languages

The Charruan languages are an extinct group of languages once spoken in Uruguay and the Argentine province of Entre Ríos. In 2005 a semi-speaker of Chaná language was found.

Four languages are considered to definitively belong to the Charruan language family:

A number of unattested languages are also presumed to belong to the Charruan family:

The Charruan languages are poorly attested. However, sufficient vocabulary has been gathered for the languages to be compared:

Jorge Suárez includes Charruan with Guaicuruan in a hypothetical Waikuru-Charrúa stock. Morris Swadesh includes Charruan along with Guaicuruan, Matacoan, and Mascoyan within his Macro-Mapuche stock. Both proposals appear to be obsolete.


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