Millcayac language

Millcayac
Native to	Argentina, dispossessed to Chile
Ethnicity	Huarpe people
Extinct	few Huarpean speakers left by 1630
Language family	Huarpean Millcayac
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Linguist list	`qgb` (Milykayak)
Glottolog	`mill1237`^[1]

Millcayac (Milykayak) was one of two known Warpean languages. It was native to Cuyo in Argentina, but was displaced to Chile in the late 16th century before being described. The people became mestizo and lost their language soon after.

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Millcayac". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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