Güenoa (Minuan) is a sparsely documented, extinct Charruan language once spoken in

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Güenoa is known from a short 18th-century

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in Italian. Hervás y Panduro, Lorenzo. 1787. ''Saggio Pratico delle lingue''. (Idea dell'Universo, XXI.) Cesena: Gregorio Biasini all'Insengna di Pallade. 255pp.Nikulin, Andrey V. 2019.
The classification of the languages of the South American Lowlands: State-of-the-art and challenges / Классификация языков востока Южной Америки
'. Illič-Svityč (Nostratic) Seminar / Ностратический семинар, Higher School of Economics, October 17, 2019. The text sample below, originally from Hervás y Panduro (1787: 229), has been reproduced from Vignati (1940).Vignati, Milcíades A. 1940. ''El catecismo Güenoa del Abate Hervás''. ''Notas del Museo de la Plata: Antropología'' 5: 41-43.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guenoa language Charruan languages Extinct languages of South America Chaco linguistic area

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