• Source: Charruan languages

The Charruan languages are a language family once spoken in Uruguay and the Argentine province of Entre Ríos. In 2005, a semi-speaker of the Chaná language, Blas Wilfredo Omar Jaime, was found in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina.




Internal coherence


Charruan may actually consist of two or three unrelated families according to Nikulin (2019). Nikulin notes that many of the following languages share very few basic vocabulary items with each other.

Chaná as spoken by Blas Wilfredo Omar Jaime
Chaná of Larrañaga (1923)
Charrúa of Vilardebó (1842)
Güenoa from a short 18th-century catechesis quoted by Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro




Languages


Four languages are considered to definitively belong to the Charruan language family, basically Chañá (Lanték), Nbeuá, Charrúa and Guenoa.

A number of unattested languages are also presumed to belong to the Charruan family:

Bohane – spoken near Maldonado, or Salto, in Uruguay
Calchine – spoken in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, along the Salado River
Caracañá – spoken along the Caracañá River, Santa Fe
Chaná-Mbegua or Begua – spoken on the Paraná River between Crespo and Victoria
Colastiné – spoken in Santa Fe Province near Colastiné
Corondá – spoken in Coronda, Santa Fe Province
Guaiquiaré – spoken in Entre Ríos on the Arroyo Guaiquiraré
Mocoreta or Macurendá or Mocolete – spoken along the Mocoretá River in Entre Ríos Province
Pairindi – spoken in Entre Ríos from Corrientes to the Feliciano River
Timbu – spoken in Gaboto, Santa Fe Province
Yaro – spoken in Uruguay between the Río Negro and the San Salvador River




Genetic relations


Jorge Suárez includes Charruan with Guaicuruan in a hypothetical Waikuru-Charrúa stock. Morris Swadesh includes Charruan along with Guaicuruan, Matacoan, and Mascoyan within his Macro-Mapuche stock. Both proposals appear to be obsolete.




Vocabulary comparison


The Charruan languages are poorly attested. However, sufficient vocabulary has been gathered for the languages to be compared:

Lexical comparison from Nikulin (2019):




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Charruan languages
• List of indigenous languages of Argentina
• Languages of Argentina
• List of languages by time of extinction
• Mataco–Guaicuru languages
• Guaicuruan languages
• Charrúa
• Güenoa language
• Charrúa language
• Charrua (disambiguation)