Humahuaca (Omaguaca) is an extinct and unclassified language of

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(Campbell 2012). Tribal and possibly dialect divisions were Fiscara, Jujuy, Ocloya, Osa, Purmamarca, and Tiliar. Mason (1950) proposed that Humahuaca was related to

Diaguita The Diaguita people are a group of South American indigenous people native to the Chilean Norte Chico and the Argentine Northwest. Western or Chilean Diaguitas lived mainly in the Transverse Valleys which incised in a semi-arid environment. Ea ...

(Cacán) and

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in a group he called "Ataguitan", but modern sources leave it unclassified due to a lack of data.

Varieties

Varieties classified by Loukotka (1968) as part of the Humahuaca language cluster: *Humahuaca or Omaguaca - extinct language once spoken in the valleys of

Tilcara San Francisco de Tilcara (usually referred to as Tilcara) is a city in the province of Jujuy, Argentina, and the head town of the Tilcara Department. It had 6,249 inhabitants at the . Traces of human habitation in the area date back more than 10,0 ...

and

Humahuaca Humahuaca () is a small city in the province of Jujuy, Argentina. Since 2003 declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO at the Paris conference. It has 11,369 inhabitants as per the , and is the principal town (seat) of the Department of Humahuaca. T ...

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, Argentina. *Ocloya - once spoken in Jujuy Province on the "Normente River" and near Necay. *Jujui - once spoken around the city of

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. (Unattested) *Casavindo - once spoken around the city of

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, Jujuy Province. (Unattested) *Cochinoca - once spoken near the city of

Cochinoca Cochinoca is a rural municipality and village in Jujuy Province in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an ar ...

, Jujuy Province. (Unattested) *Churumata - once spoken by the northwestern neighbors of the Humahuaca tribe. (Unattested)

References

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