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List of extinct languages of South America

Index List of extinct languages of South America

This is a partial list of extinct languages of South America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. [1]

114 relations: Abipón language, Acroá language, Aguano language, Allentiac language, Andaqui language, Andoa language, Anserma language, Apiaká language, Arawá language, Arma language, Aroã language, Atanque language, Atsawaka language, Aushiri language, Cañari language, Cacán language, Canichana language, Caranqui language, Catacao language, Catacaoan languages, Cayuvava language, Chaná language, Chané language, Charruan languages, Chibcha language, Chiquitano language, Cholón language, Colan language, Comechingón, Culle language, Cumanagoto language, Duit language, Dzubukua, Esmeralda language, Extinct languages of the Marañón River basin, First language, Güenoa language, Guanaca language, Het peoples, Hibito language, Historical language, Huamoé language, Itene language, Kagwahiva language, Kaimbé language, Kamakan language, Kambiwá language, Kanoê language, Kapinawá, Kashibo language, ..., Kunza language, Language death, List of unclassified languages of South America, Lists of extinct languages, Lule language, Macaguaje language, Maipure language, Malibu languages, Maritsauá language, Mato Grosso Arára language, Maynas language, Môa Remo language, Millcayac language, Mochica language, Nukini language, Nutabe language, Omurano language, Ona language, Oti language, Otuke language, Palta language, Pankararú language, Panzaleo language, Paraujano language, Pasto language, Pataxó language, Pijao language, Potiguara language, Puelche language, Puquina language, Purí language, Puruhá language, Quimbaya language, Quingnam language, Saraveca language, Sechura language, Sensi language, Sirionó language, Skepi Creole Dutch, South America, Spurious languages, Tallán language, Tama language (Colombia), Tamanaku language, Tehuelche language, Tequiraca language, Terêna language, Truká language, Tupi language, Turiwára language, Tuxá language, Tuxinawa language, Umotína language, Wakoná language, Wariapano language, Wasu language, Xakriabá language, Xocó language, Yabaâna language, Yameo language, Yauna language, Yavitero language, Yupuá language, Yurumanguí language. Expand index (64 more) »

Abipón language

The Abipón language was a native American language of the Guaicuruan group of the Guaycurú-Charruan family that was at one time spoken in Argentina by the Abipón people.

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Acroá language

Acroa is an extinct Je language of Brazil.

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Aguano language

Aguano is a possible extinct language of Peru.

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Allentiac language

Allentiac (Alyentiyak), also known as Huarpe (Warpe), was one of two known Warpean languages.

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Andaqui language

Andaqui (or Andaki) is an extinct language from the southern highlands of Colombia.

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Andoa language

Andoa is an extinct Zaparoan language of Peru.

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Anserma language

Anserma (Anserna) is an extinct Chocoan language of Colombia.

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Apiaká language

Apiaká is a recently extinct Tupi language of the Apiacá people of the upper Rio Tapajos area of Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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Arawá language

Arawá Aruá is an extinct language of Brazil.

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Arma language

Arma is a possible but unattested extinct language of Colombia.

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Aroã language

Aruán (Aroã) is an extinct Arawakan language of Brazil.

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Atanque language

Atanque (Atanques) or Cancuamo (Kankuamo), also known as Kankwe and Kankuí, is an extinct Chibchan language of Colombia.

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Atsawaka language

Atswawaka, also called Atsahuaca, or Atsawaka-Yamiaka, is an extinct Panoan language of Peru.

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Aushiri language

Aushiri (Auxira) is an extinct Zaparoan language formerly spoken in Peru.

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Cañari language

Cañar or Cañari is a poorly attested extinct language of the Marañón River basin in Ecuador which is difficult to classify, apart from being apparently related to Puruhá, though it may have been Chimuan or Barbacoan.

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Cacán language

Cacán (also Cacan, Kakán, Calchaquí, Chaka, Diaguita, and Kaka) is an extinct language that was spoken by the Diaguita and Calchaquí tribes in northern Argentina and Chile.

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Canichana language

Canichana, or Canesi, is a possible language isolate of Bolivia (department Beni).

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Caranqui language

Caranqui, or Cara (Kara), is an extinct, probably Barbacoan language of Ecuador.

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Catacao language

Catacao (Katakao) is an extinct language of Peru.

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Catacaoan languages

The Catacaoan languages are an extinct family of three languages spoken in the Piura Region of Peru.

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Cayuvava language

Cayuvava (Cayubaba, Cayuwaba, Kayuvava) is a nearly extinct language of Bolivia, in the region of Beni, west of Mamore River, north of Santa Ana del Yacuma.

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Chaná language

Chaná, is an extinct Charruan language that was once spoken in Uruguay along the Uruguay and Paraná-Guazú rivers.

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Chané language

Chané is an extinct language of Argentina and Bolivia.

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Charruan languages

The Charruan languages are an extinct group of languages once spoken in Uruguay and the Argentine province of Entre Ríos.

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Chibcha language

Chibcha is an extinct language of Colombia, spoken by the Muisca, one of the four advanced indigenous civilizations of the Americas.

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Chiquitano language

Chiquitano (also Bésiro or Tarapecosi) is an indigenous language isolate of eastern Bolivia, spoken in the central region of the Santa Cruz province.

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Cholón language

Cholón, also known as Seeptsá and Tsinganeses, is a recently extinct language of Peru.

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Colan language

Colán (Kolán) is an extinct language of Peru.

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Comechingón

Comechingón (plural Comechingones) is the common name for a group of people indigenous to the Argentine provinces of Córdoba and San Luis.

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Culle language

Culle (Cullí, Kulyi), also known as Ilinga (Linga), is a poorly attested extinct language of northern Peru.

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Cumanagoto language

Cumanagoto (Cumanogota, Cumaná, Kumaná); also Chaima (Chayma) is an endangered language of eastern coastal Venezuela.

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Duit language

Duit is an extinct Chibcha language, spoken by the Muisca of present-day Boyacá, Colombia.

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Dzubukua

Dzubukuá (Dzubucua), or Kiriri, is an extinct Karirian language of Brazil.

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Esmeralda language

Esmeralda, or Esmeraldeño (also called Takame or Atacame), is an extinct language isolate formerly spoken in the coastal region of Ecuador.

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Extinct languages of the Marañón River basin

The Marañón River basin, at a low point in the Andes which made it an attractive location for trade between the Inca Empire and the Amazon basin, once harbored numerous languages which have been poorly attested or not attested at all.

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First language

A first language, native language or mother/father/parent tongue (also known as arterial language or L1) is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Güenoa language

Güenoa is an extinct Charruan language once spoken in Uruguay and Argentina.

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Guanaca language

Guanáca (Guanuco) is an extinct and scarcely attested language of Colombia.

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Het peoples

The Het were the people of the northern Patagonian pampas west of the Paraná River: The Chechehet, the Diuihet Didiuhet, and the Taluhet.

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Hibito language

Hibito (spelled variously Híbito, Hívito, Chibito, Ibito, Jibito, Xibita, Zibito) is an extinct language of Peru.

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Historical language

Historical languages (also known as historic languages) are languages that were spoken in a historical period, but that are distinct from their modern form; that is, they are forms of languages historically attested to from the past which have evolved into more modern forms.

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Huamoé language

Huamoé (Wamoe) Uamué is an extinct language of Brazil that is too poorly attested to classify.

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Itene language

Itene is a Chapacuran language of Bolivia.

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Kagwahiva language

Kagwahiva (Kawahíb, Kagwahibm) is a Tupi–Guarani dialect cluster of Brazil.

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Kaimbé language

Kaimbé is an extinct unclassified language of eastern Brazil.

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Kamakan language

The Kamakã language (Kamakan), or Ezeshio, is an extinct language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Gê languages of Brazil.

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Kambiwá language

Kambiwá Cambioá is an extinct unclassified language of Brazil.

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Kanoê language

Kanoê or Kapishana is a nearly extinct language isolate of Rondônia, Brazil.

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Kapinawá

The Kapinawâ are an indigenous people of Pernambuco in eastern Brazil.

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Kashibo language

Cashibo (Caxibo, Cacibo, Cachibo, Cahivo), Cacataibo, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Managua, or Hagueti is an indigenous language of Peru in the region of the Aguaytía, San Alejandro, and Súngaro rivers.

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Kunza language

Kunza a.k.a. Cunza, also known as Likanantaí, Lipe, Ulipe, or Atacameño, is an extinct language isolate once spoken in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and southern Perú (specifically in Peine, Socaire (Salar de Atacama), and Caspana) by the Lickan-antay people, who have since shifted to Spanish.

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Language death

In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker.

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List of unclassified languages of South America

Campbell & Grondona (2012:116-130) list the following 395 languages of South America as unclassified.

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Lists of extinct languages

*List of languages by time of extinction ----.

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Lule language

Lule is an indigenous language of northern Argentina.

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Macaguaje language

Macaguaje is an extinct Tucanoan language of Colombia.

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Maipure language

Maipure (Maypure, Mejepure), was a language once spoken along the Ventuari, Sipapo, and Autana rivers of Amazonas and, as a lingua franca, in the Upper Orinoco region.

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Malibu languages

The Malibu languages are a poorly attested group of extinct languages once spoken along the Magdalena River in Colombia.

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Maritsauá language

Maritsauá (Manitsawá) is an extinct Tupian language of the state of Mato Grosso, in the Amazon region of Brazil.

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Mato Grosso Arára language

Mato Grosso Arára (also disambiguated as Arara do Beiradão or Arara do Rio Branco, and also known as Koaiá ~ Koayá) is an extinct unclassified language of Brazil.

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Maynas language

Maynas (Mayna, Maina), also known as Rimachu, is an extinct and unclassified language of Peru.

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Môa Remo language

Remo (Rheno) is an extinct indigenous language once spoken along the Môa River of Amazonas, Peru, one of several Panoan languages to go by that name.

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Millcayac language

Millcayac (Milykayak) was one of two known Warpean languages.

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Mochica language

Mochica (also Yunga, Yunca, Chimú, Muchic, Mochika, Muchik, Chimu) is a Chimuan language formerly spoken along the northwest coast of Peru and in an inland village.

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Nukini language

Nukini (Nukuini, Nuquini) is an obsolescent Panoan language of Brazil (Fleck 2013).

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Nutabe language

Nutabe (Nutabane) is an extinct Chibchan language of Colombia (Adelaar & Muysken, 2004:49).

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Omurano language

Omurano is an unclassified language from Peru.

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Ona language

Ona (Aona), also known as Selk'nam (Shelknam), is a language that is spoken by the Selk'nam people in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego in southernmost South America.

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Oti language

The Otí language, also known as Chavante or Euchavante, is a language isolate once spoken in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, between the Peixe and Pardo rivers.

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Otuke language

Otuke (Otuque) is an extinct language of the Macro-Gê family, related to Bororo.

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Palta language

The extinct Palta language of the Ecuadorian Amazon is attested by only a few words: yumé 'water', xeme 'maize', capal 'fire', let 'wood' (Jiménez de la Espada, 1586), and some toponyms.

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Pankararú language

Pankararú (Pancaré, Pankaré, Pancaru, Pankaruru, Pankarará, Pankaravu, Pankaroru, Pankarú, Brancararu) is an extinct language of eastern Brazil.

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Panzaleo language

Panzaleo (Pansaleo, Quito, Latacunga) is a poorly attested and unclassified indigenous American language that was spoken in the region of Quito until the 17th century.

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Paraujano language

Paraujano is an Arawakan language spoken by the Paraujano, or Anu͂, people of Venezuela.

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Pasto language

Pasto is a purported Barbacoan language that was spoken by indigenous people of Pasto, Colombia and Carchi Province, Ecuador.

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Pataxó language

Pataxó (Patashó), or Pataxó Hã-Ha-Hãe (Pataxó-Hãhaãi), is an extinct native language in Brazil formerly spoken by the Pataxó people of the Bahia region, and of Minas Gerais, Pôsto Paraguassu in Itabuna municipality.

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Pijao language

Pijao (Piajao, Pinao) is an unclassified indigenous American language that was spoken in the villages of Orrega, Coyaima (Koyai, Tupe) and Natagaima in the Magdalena River Valley of Colombia until the 1950s.

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Potiguara language

Potiguara is an extinct Tupi language formerly used by the Potiguara people of Brazil.

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Puelche language

Puelche is an extinct language formerly spoken by the Puelche people in the Pampas region of Argentina.

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Puquina language

Puquina (or Pukina) is an extinct language once spoken by a native ethnic group in the region surrounding Lake Titicaca (Peru and Bolivia) and in the north of Chile.

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Purí language

Purí is an extinct language of eastern Brazil.

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Puruhá language

Puruhá (Puruguay, Puruwá) is a poorly attested extinct language of the Marañón River basin in Ecuador which is difficult to classify, apart from being apparently related to Cañari, though it may have been Barbacoan.

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Quimbaya language

Quimbaya (Kimbaya) is a supposed extinct language of Colombia, of which only a single word is known (Campbell & Grondona 2012).

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Quingnam language

The Quingnam language was a pre-Columbian language that was spoken by the Chimú people, who lived in the former territories of the Mochicas: an area north of the Chicama Chao River Valley.

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Saraveca language

Saraveca is an extinct Arawakan language once spoken in Bolivia by the Sarave.

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Sechura language

The Sechura language, also known as Sek, is an extinct language spoken in the Piura Region of Peru, near the port of Sechura.

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Sensi language

Sensi (Senti, Tenti, Mananahua) is an extinct Panoan language, spoken on the right bank of the Ucayali River, Peru.

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Sirionó language

Sirionó (also Mbia Chee, Mbya, Siriono) is a Tupian (Tupi–Guarani, Subgroup II) language spoken by about 400 Sirionó people (50 are monolingual) and 120 Yuqui in eastern Bolivia (eastern Beni and northwestern Santa Cruz departments) in the village of Ibiato (Eviato) and along the Río Blanco in farms and ranches.

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Skepi Creole Dutch

Skepi is an extinct Dutch-based creole language of Guyana, spoken in the region of Essequibo.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Spurious languages

Spurious languages are languages that have been reported as existing in reputable works, while other research has reported that the language in question did not exist.

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Tallán language

Tallán, or Atalán, is an extinct and poorly attested language of the Piura Region of Peru.

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Tama language (Colombia)

Tama is an extinct indigenous Tucanoan language of Colombia.

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Tamanaku language

Tamanaku (Tamañkú) is an extinct Cariban language of Venezuela.

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Tehuelche language

Tehuelche (Aoniken, Inaquen, Gunua-Kena, Gununa-Kena) is one of the Chonan languages of Patagonia.

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Tequiraca language

Tequiraca (Tekiráka), also known as Abishira (Avishiri)* and Aiwa (Aewa), is a language spoken in Peru.

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Terêna language

Terêna or Etelena is spoken by 15,000 Brazilians.

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Truká language

Truká is an extinct and unattested, but presumed, language of Brazil.

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Tupi language

Old Tupi or classical Tupi is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who inhabited coastal regions in South and Southeast Brazil.

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Turiwára language

Turiwára is an extinct Tupi–Guaraní language of the state of Pará, in the Amazon region of Brazil.

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Tuxá language

Tuxá (Tusha; also Todela ~ Rodela, Carapató, Payacú) was the eastern Brazilian language of the Tuxá people, who now speak Portuguese.

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Tuxinawa language

Tuxináwa (Tuchinawa) is an extinct Panoan language of Brazil.

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Umotína language

Umotína is a recently extinct language of Brazil.

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Wakoná language

Wakoná is an extinct and unattested, presumed language of eastern Brazil.

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Wariapano language

Wariapano (Huariapano), also known as Pano, Panavarro, and Pánobo, is an obsolescent Panoan language of Peru.

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Wasu language

Wasu (Waçu, Wassú) is an extinct and unattested, presumed language of Brazil.

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Xakriabá language

Xakriabá (also written Chakriaba, Chikriaba, Shacriaba) is an extinct Ge language formerly spoken in Minas Gerais, Brazil by the Xakriabá people, who today speak Portuguese.

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Xocó language

Xocó (Chocó, Shokó) is an extinct and poorly attested language or languages of Brazil that is not known to be related to other languages.

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Yabaâna language

Yabaâna (Yabaána) is an extinct Arawakan language of Brazil.

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Yameo language

Yameo is an extinct language from Peba–Yaguan language family that was formerly spoken in Peru.

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Yauna language

Yauna (Yahuna) is an extinct Tucanoan language of Colombia.

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Yavitero language

Yavitero or Paraene is a nearly extinct Maipurean language of Venezuela.

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Yupuá language

Yupuá (Jupua), or Yupuá-Duriña, is an extinct Tucanoan language.

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Yurumanguí language

Yurumanguí is an extinct language of Colombia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_languages_of_South_America

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