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Huarpean
Warpean
Geographic distribution	Cuyo Province,Argentina
Ethnicity	Huarpe people
Extinct	after 1630s
Linguistic classification	Macro-Warpean ? Macro-Jibaro ? Huarpean
Subdivisions	Millcayac† Allentiac† Puntano/Michilenge† (unattested) ?Comechingón†[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	huar1251
Map of the Huarpean languages

Huarpe (Warpe) is a small, now extinct language family of central Argentina (historicCuyo Province) that consisted of at least two closely related languages. They are traditionally considered dialects, and includeAllentiac (Alyentiyak, Huarpe) andMillcayac (Milykayak). A third,Puntano ofSan Luis, was not documented before the languages became extinct.

Kaufman (1994) tentatively linked Huarpe to theMura-Matanawi languages in a family he calledMacro-Warpean. However, he noted that "no systematic study" had been made, so that it is best to consider them independent families. Swadesh and Suárez both connected Huarpe toMacro-Jibaro, a possibility that has yet to be investigated.

Varieties classified by Loukotka (1968) as part of the Huarpe language cluster (all unattested unless noted otherwise, i.e. for Chiquiyama and Comechingon):^[2]

• Oico /Holcotian - once spoken inMendoza Province in theDiamante Valley. (Unattested.)
• Orcoyan /Oscollan - once spoken in the southern regions ofMendoza Province. (Unattested.)
• Chiquiyama - once spoken between the city ofMendoza and the Barranca River. (documented in Latcham 1927)^{[full citation needed]}
• Tuluyame /Puelche algarrobero - once spoken in theCalamuchita Valley [es],Córdoba Province. (Unattested.)
• Michilenge /Puntano - once spoken in theConlara Valley,San Luis Province. (Unattested.)
• Olongasto - once spoken inLa Rioja Province by the neighbors of the Allentiac tribe. (Unattested.)
• Comechingon - extinct language once spoken in theSierra de Córdoba inCórdoba Province, Argentina (documented in Cafferata 1926; Canals Frau 1944a;^[3] Serrano 1944,^[4] 1945^[5])^[6]

Varieties of theHuarpe-Comechingon linguistic group cited from Canals Frau (1944) byMason (1950):^[7]

Pericot y Garcia (1936) lists Zoquillam, Tunuyam, Chiquillan, Morcoyam, Diamantino (Oyco), Mentuayn, Chom, Titiyam, Otoyam, Ultuyam, and Cucyam.^[7]

The two languages had apparently similar sound systems, and were not dissimilar from Spanish, at least from the records we have. Barros (2009) reconstructs the consonants as follows:^[8]

Allentiac had at least six vowels, writtena, e, i, o, u, ù. Theù is thought to represent the central vowel[ɨ].

Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Huarpean languages.^[2]

gloss	Allentiac	Millcayac	Henia
one	lka	negui
two	yemen	yemeni
three	pultun	pultuni
head	yoto
tooth	tuxe	tex
water	kaha	aka
fire	kʔtek	ketek
sun	tekta	xumek
tree	zaʔat	eye
maize	telag	telam
bird	zurú	zuru	lemin[a]

• Barros, J. Pedro Viegas.(2009) Una propuesta de fonetización y fonemización tentativas de las hablas Huarpes.
• Catalina Teresa Michieli, 1990.Millcayac y Allentiac: Los dialectos del idioma HuarpeArchived 2012-03-23 at theWayback Machine
• Lengua Huarpe at pueblosoriginarios.com

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