Payaguá (Payawá) is an extinct language of

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, spoken by the Payaguá. It is usually classified as one of the Guaicuruan languages, but the data is insufficient to demonstrate that.

Classification

Viegas Barros (2004) proposes that Payagua may be a Macro-Guaicurúan language.Viegas Barros, José Pedro. 2004. ''Guaicurú no, macro-Guaicurú sí: Una hipótesis sobre la clasificación de la lengua Guachí (Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil)''. Ms. 34pp. However, Campbell (2012) classifies Payagua as a

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. An automated computational analysis ( ASJP 4) by Müller et al. (2013)Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013.
ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013)
'. found lexical similarities between Payagua and the Chonan languages. However, since the analysis was automatically generated, the grouping could be either due to mutual lexical borrowing, genetic inheritance, or chance resemblances.

Notes

References

*Boggiani, G. (1900). Lingüística sudamericana: Datos para el estudio de los idiomas Payagua y Machicui. Trabajos de la 4a sección del Congreso Científico Latinoamericano, 203-282. Buenos Aires: Compañía Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco. *Schmidt, M. (1949). Los Payaguá. Revista do Museu Paulista N.S., 3:129-317. * * Languages of Argentina Guaicuruan languages Extinct languages of South America Languages extinct in the 1900s Language isolates of South America Chaco linguistic area {{Argentina-culture-stub