Güenoa is a sparsely documented, extinct
Charruan language once spoken in
Uruguay
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and
Argentina
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.
Text sample
Güenoa is known from a short 18th-century
catechesis
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quoted by
Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro
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in Italian.
[ Hervás y Panduro, Lorenzo. 1787. ''Saggio Pratico delle lingue''. (Idea dell'Universo, XXI.) Cesena: Gregorio Biasini all'Insengna di Pallade. 255pp.][Nikulin, Andrey V. 2019. ]
The classification of the languages of the South American Lowlands: State-of-the-art and challenges / Классификация языков востока Южной Америки
'. Illič-Svityč (Nostratic) Seminar / Ностратический семинар, Higher School of Economics, October 17, 2019. The text sample below, originally from Hervás y Panduro (1787: 229), has been reproduced from Vignati (1940).
[Vignati, Milcíades A. 1940. ''El catecismo Güenoa del Abate Hervás''. ''Notas del Museo de la Plata: Antropología'' 5: 41-43.]
See also
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Güenoa people
*
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 co ...
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Charrúa people
The Charrúa were an indigenous people or Indigenous Nation of the Southern Cone in present-day Uruguay and the adjacent areas in Argentina ( Entre Ríos) and Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul). They were a semi-nomadic people who sustained themselves ...
References
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Charruan languages
Extinct languages of South America
Chaco linguistic area