Humahuaca (Omaguaca) is an extinct and unclassified language of
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, t ...
(Campbell 2012).
Tribal and possibly dialect divisions were Fiscara, Jujuy, Ocloya, Osa, Purmamarca, and Tiliar. Mason (1950) proposed that Humahuaca was related to
Diaguita
The Diaguita people are a group of South American indigenous people native to the Chilean Norte Chico and the Argentine Northwest. Western or Chilean Diaguitas lived mainly in the Transverse Valleys which incised in a semi-arid environment. ...
(Cacán) and
Kunza in a group he called "Ataguitan", but modern sources leave it unclassified due to a lack of data.
Varieties
Varieties classified by Loukotka (1968) as part of the Humahuaca language cluster:
*Humahuaca or Omaguaca - extinct language once spoken in the valleys of
Tilcara and
Humahuaca,
Jujuy Province
Jujuy is a province of Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta to the east and south.
Geography
There are three main areas in Jujuy: ...
, Argentina.
*Ocloya - once spoken in Jujuy Province on the "Normente River" and near Necay.
*Jujui - once spoken around the city of
Jujuy. (Unattested)
*Casavindo - once spoken around the city of
Casabindo, Jujuy Province. (Unattested)
*Cochinoca - once spoken near the city of
Cochinoca, Jujuy Province. (Unattested)
*Churumata - once spoken by the northwestern neighbors of the Humahuaca tribe. (Unattested)
References
Languages of Argentina
Unclassified languages of South America
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