Allentiac (Alyentiyak), also known as Huarpe (Warpe), was one of two known Warpean languages. It was native to Cuyo in Argentina, but was displaced to Chile in the late 16th century.

Luis de Valdivia Luis de Valdivia (; 1560 – November 5, 1642) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who defended the rights of the natives of Chile and pleaded for the reduction of the hostilities with the Mapuches in the Arauco War. Following the 1598 revolt of the M ...

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missionary, wrote a grammar, vocabulary and religious texts.Márquez Miranda, Fernando. 1943. Los textos Millcayac del P.

con su vocabulario español-Allentiac = Millcayac. ''Revista del Museo de la Plata (Nueva Série): Antropología'' II: 61-223. The people became mestizo and lost their language soon after.

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Huarpean languages Extinct languages of South America Languages of Argentina Languages of Chile Languages extinct in the 17th century {{na-lang-stub